Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a frigid manner; coldly; without warmth of feeling or manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.

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  • adverb In a frigid manner; coldly.

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  • adverb without warmth or enthusiasm

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Examples

  • "Derwent Conniston," she called frigidly, "there's a female person on the telephone asking for you.

    The River's End James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • At one point in the book you describe Central Asia as "Massive, sometimes flat, sometimes mountainous, sometimes terrifically hot, other times frigidly cold, plagued with thousands of miles of penetrable borders, lacking an identifiable geographic center, and home to citizens know figuratively and sometimes literally to cut the colonialist's throatÂ… the death sentence of several empires which attempted to hold onto it."

    A Conversation with Tom Bissell 2010

  • After a week of frigidly cold temperatures, Denver residents should be ready to take advantage of the warmer weekend forecast.

    PHOTOS: Ukuleles, Super Bowl Parties And Magic Fill Up The Weekend in Denver Lauren Kane 2011

  • After a week of frigidly cold temperatures, Denver residents should be ready to take advantage of the warmer weekend forecast.

    PHOTOS: Ukuleles, Super Bowl Parties And Magic Fill Up The Weekend in Denver Lauren Kane 2011

  • And one November day, with the first cold snap on and the spirit thermometer frigidly marking sixty-five below, she got out the sled, harnessed her team of huskies, and flew down the river trail.

    CHAPTER 9 2010

  • After a week of frigidly cold temperatures, Denver residents should be ready to take advantage of the warmer weekend forecast.

    PHOTOS: Ukuleles, Super Bowl Parties And Magic Fill Up The Weekend in Denver Lauren Kane 2011

  • Into this a man's carcass is dumped, covered over with moss, and left with the assurance that it will rise on the crack of Doom, wholly and frigidly intact.

    GRIT OF WOMEN 2010

  • After a week of frigidly cold temperatures, Denver residents should be ready to take advantage of the warmer weekend forecast.

    PHOTOS: Ukuleles, Super Bowl Parties And Magic Fill Up The Weekend in Denver Lauren Kane 2011

  • You know you are skating on this (here terra-round, earth bound) thin ice and must be as diffident and mistrustful as one who "forges a river in winter" (- tao te ching) and then goes into the Icelandic dreams (oh so frigidly shivering).

    A Mess 2010

  • And with it he gazed directly into two frigidly staring optics of the most fearsome creature he had ever beheld.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Johnny Pez 2010

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  • "Why did you even bother?, I asked frigidly."- Twilight, Stephanie Meyer, pg.65

    November 8, 2010