Synonyms:
arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar
Meaning: extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather"
Synonyms:
frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry
Meaning: devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile"
Synonyms:
glacial
Meaning: relating to or derived from a glacier; "glacial deposit"
Usage examples
GLACIAL AND PREGLACIAL LAKES AND RIVERS.
A glacial silence reigned in the carriage.
Glacial lakes may be divided into three classes.
They are found everywhere that glacial action has prevailed.
Over a nature which, at the beginning, was warmly human, Doctor Dexter had laid this glacial mask.
There are hundreds and perhaps thousands of lakes that have been formed in one way or another through the power of glacial action.
This process has been hinted at in a former chapter, but we give it here as one of the kinds of lakes formed during the glacial period.
Great bodies of salt are found at that low level, constantly dissolved by the water percolating through the sand and gravel of the glacial drift.
Before the glacial period the Wisconsin River made a detour some miles west of its present channel through the high hills in the region of Baraboo.
From the foot of the Fall the trail zigzags up a narrow canyon between the fall and a plain mural cliff that is burnished here and there by glacial action.