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adjective

Frigid adj.

Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.

Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.

Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.

Frigid zone, that part of the earth which lies between either polar circle and its pole. See the Note under Arctic.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Frigid" Quotes from Famous Books

... steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... to detain him, half suspecting that she had appeared at a strenuous moment. When the barrister had departed (Mary had just extended to him the tips of her frigid fingers), and Eve's polite inquiries after Lady Garnett's health had ...

— A Comedy of Masks - A Novel • Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore

... old-time fireside dreams; a work-table with attenuated legs called to mind the wearisome needlework of our foremothers; and a brass warming-pan carried us back to the times when only such devices could make tolerable the frigid ...

— Virginia: The Old Dominion • Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins

... imagination and passionate temperament, the tenderest soul and most artistic nature, dwelling continually in the presence of the most flint-hearted, atrabilious, and frigid man on earth; think of me as a young girl married to a skeleton, and you will understand the life whose curious scenes can only be a hearsay tale to you; the plans for running away that perished at the sight of my father, the despair ...

— The Magic Skin • Honore de Balzac

... of certain types. One was an elderly gentleman with a snow-white, short beard, pink, unwrinkled face and stony, sharp blue eyes, attired in the fashion of a gilded youth, who seemed to personify the city's wealth, ripeness and frigid unconcern. Another type was a woman, tall, beautiful, clear as a steel engraving, goddess-like, calm, clothed like the princesses of old, with eyes as coldly blue as the reflection of sunlight on ...

— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry

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