glacially

Variant of glacial

adjective

  1. of or like ice or glaciers
  2. of or produced by a glacier or a glacial epoch or period
  3. freezing; frigid: glacial weather
  4. cold and unfriendly: a glacial stare
  5. as slow as the movement of a glacier: glacial progress
  6. Chem. having an icelike, crystalline appearance

Origin: L glacialis, icy, frozen < glacies, ice < IE *glag-, partial redupl. of base *gel-, to freeze > cold

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