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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ice-cold¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• frozen
• glacial
• icy