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frigid
The definition of frigid is someone or something very cold or formal.
(adjective)An example of frigid is an outdoor temperature of below freezing.
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See frigid in Webster's New World College Dictionary
adjective
- extremely cold; without heat or warmth
- without warmth of feeling or manner; stiff and formal
- habitually failing to become sexually aroused, or abnormally repelled by sexual activity: said of a woman
Origin: ME < L frigidus < frigere, to be cold < frigus, coldness, frost < IE base *srīg-, coldness > Gr rhigos, frost
Related Forms:
- frigidity noun or frigidness
- frigidly adverb
See frigid in American Heritage Dictionary 4
adjective
- Extremely cold. See Synonyms at cold.
- Lacking warmth of feeling.
- Stiff and formal in manner: a frigid refusal to a request.
- Persistently averse to sexual intercourse.
Origin:
Origin: Latin frīgidus, cold
Origin: , from frīgus, the cold
.Related Forms:
- fri·gidˈi·ty (frĭ-jĭdˈĭ-tē), frigˈid·ness noun
- frigˈid·ly adverb
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