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View synonyms for ice-cold

ice-cold

[ ahys-kohld ]

adjective

  1. cold as ice:

    Her feet were ice-cold.

    Synonyms: icelike, frozen, icy, freezing

  2. without warmth of feeling or manner; unemotional; passionless:

    an ice-cold reception.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of ice-cold1

before 1000; Old English is-calde; unrecorded in Middle English
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Example Sentences

“That deck is ice cold, and so is the other one,” he bawled.

The superstar comedian’s latest, ‘A Thousand Words,' is set to flop, and his career has gone ice cold.

Edward, on the other hand, is a brooding, self-absorbed Byronic hero with ice-cold hands.

When it comes to appearing as themselves in movies, however, both stars are ice-cold.

But when they got out into the stream, Washington's pole caught in the ice and jerked him out into ten feet of ice-cold water.

Then, from the ice-cold bottom, rising as a meteor darts across the sky, the great fish clove the water to the surface.

Her voice was ice-cold, like her body, which seemed to be frozen into immobility.

She looked so piteously thin and white, and her hands were ice cold.

The nearly ice cold, spring water influenced Alfred to go home with the black on his face.

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