Definition of gelid in English:

gelid

adjective ˈdʒɛlɪdˈdʒɛlɪd

literary

Icy; extremely cold.
冰冷的，极冷的
the gelid pond
冰冷的池塘。
she gave a gelid reply
〈喻〉她冷冷地回答。
Example sentencesExamples
- This dispassionate view of man and nature brings an icy edge to her work, intensified by her color choice of glacial whites and gelid blues.
- The four vertical tubes look irresistibly floral after the gelid Tatlin monuments and are dedicated to a master at the other end of the modernist pantheon, Henri Matisse.
- He waited in ghastly silence under the stairs as the doors flung open, sending in a gelid breeze.
- I can still recall that gelid winter morning, with the cold wind whistling around my ears.
- One of these methods is to blanket everyone in a paralyzing, gelid mass of sulfonated sugar polymers - like institutional tapioca pudding.
- The camera is static, and the compositions gelid, lacking any originality.
- The gelid air cocoons the teams in the intensity of their own efforts.
- Didn't they care that the emotional tone of his work swings between the saccharine and the gelid?
- They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
- Although they were high in the mountains, and the wind was from the east, and cold with a foretaste of winter, still, it felt warmer than the gelid air radiating from the White River.
- As the scores indicate - typically gelid to frozen - the shots seem to fall in the unflattering to outright frightening range.
- But prepare for disillusionment, too, for these artists were blissfully ignorant of more than just the watery liberalism we now cringingly sip like gelid, day-old decaf.
- In two rows, we soldiers wait in the gelid night, parked in what appears to be a square designated for maneuvers.
- Christmas nears with a vengeance: its jingling bell like a tinkling lily in gelid fluff overhangs the premises where they sell alcoholic beverages and stuff.
- No sense of chronological development was sketched out in the London installation; indeed, works of different genres were freely mixed and appeared to be floating in a slightly gelid, continuous present.
- She leapt to another, higher rock and sat on its rim, dangling her toes in the gelid stream.
- Talking through teeth gritted against the gelid wind, we converse in a muddle of French, English and Arabic.
- As I run my palm along its breadth, a gelid numbness permeates into my flesh.
- The wind coming from the gelid ocean was bitter cold, making exposed flesh burn.
- The lower rims of both catch and trace a spectral glint of the hard white lighting overhead, dipping as if ready to fall like gelid tears - hard little pearls, frozen in mid-roll.
Synonyms
frozen, freezing, icy, ice-cold, arctic, glacial, polar, frosty, wintry, snowy, bitterly cold, sub-zero, chilly, Siberian, hyperborean, hyperboreal
rare algid

Derivatives

gelidity

noun dʒɛˈlɪdɪtidʒɛˈlɪdədi

mass noun

literary

The quality or condition of being extremely cold or icy.
such gripping gelidity was more dangerous than many injuries

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin gelidus, from gelu 'frost, intense cold'.

Definition of gelid in US English:

gelid

adjectiveˈjelidˈdʒɛlɪd

literary

Icy; extremely cold.
冰冷的，极冷的
the gelid pond
冰冷的池塘。
she gave a gelid reply
〈喻〉她冷冷地回答。
Example sentencesExamples
- Christmas nears with a vengeance: its jingling bell like a tinkling lily in gelid fluff overhangs the premises where they sell alcoholic beverages and stuff.
- One of these methods is to blanket everyone in a paralyzing, gelid mass of sulfonated sugar polymers - like institutional tapioca pudding.
- The four vertical tubes look irresistibly floral after the gelid Tatlin monuments and are dedicated to a master at the other end of the modernist pantheon, Henri Matisse.
- But prepare for disillusionment, too, for these artists were blissfully ignorant of more than just the watery liberalism we now cringingly sip like gelid, day-old decaf.
- They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
- She leapt to another, higher rock and sat on its rim, dangling her toes in the gelid stream.
- Talking through teeth gritted against the gelid wind, we converse in a muddle of French, English and Arabic.
- The lower rims of both catch and trace a spectral glint of the hard white lighting overhead, dipping as if ready to fall like gelid tears - hard little pearls, frozen in mid-roll.
- I can still recall that gelid winter morning, with the cold wind whistling around my ears.
- The gelid air cocoons the teams in the intensity of their own efforts.
- He waited in ghastly silence under the stairs as the doors flung open, sending in a gelid breeze.
- As the scores indicate - typically gelid to frozen - the shots seem to fall in the unflattering to outright frightening range.
- The wind coming from the gelid ocean was bitter cold, making exposed flesh burn.
- The camera is static, and the compositions gelid, lacking any originality.
- No sense of chronological development was sketched out in the London installation; indeed, works of different genres were freely mixed and appeared to be floating in a slightly gelid, continuous present.
- In two rows, we soldiers wait in the gelid night, parked in what appears to be a square designated for maneuvers.
- As I run my palm along its breadth, a gelid numbness permeates into my flesh.
- This dispassionate view of man and nature brings an icy edge to her work, intensified by her color choice of glacial whites and gelid blues.
- Didn't they care that the emotional tone of his work swings between the saccharine and the gelid?
- Although they were high in the mountains, and the wind was from the east, and cold with a foretaste of winter, still, it felt warmer than the gelid air radiating from the White River.
Synonyms
frozen, freezing, icy, ice-cold, arctic, glacial, polar, frosty, wintry, snowy, bitterly cold, sub-zero, chilly, siberian, hyperborean, hyperboreal

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin gelidus, from gelu ‘frost, intense cold’.

词汇	gelid
释义	Definition of gelid in English: gelid adjective ˈdʒɛlɪdˈdʒɛlɪd literary Icy; extremely cold. 冰冷的，极冷的 the gelid pond 冰冷的池塘。 she gave a gelid reply 〈喻〉她冷冷地回答。 Example sentencesExamples This dispassionate view of man and nature brings an icy edge to her work, intensified by her color choice of glacial whites and gelid blues. The four vertical tubes look irresistibly floral after the gelid Tatlin monuments and are dedicated to a master at the other end of the modernist pantheon, Henri Matisse. He waited in ghastly silence under the stairs as the doors flung open, sending in a gelid breeze. I can still recall that gelid winter morning, with the cold wind whistling around my ears. One of these methods is to blanket everyone in a paralyzing, gelid mass of sulfonated sugar polymers - like institutional tapioca pudding. The camera is static, and the compositions gelid, lacking any originality. The gelid air cocoons the teams in the intensity of their own efforts. Didn't they care that the emotional tone of his work swings between the saccharine and the gelid? They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them. Although they were high in the mountains, and the wind was from the east, and cold with a foretaste of winter, still, it felt warmer than the gelid air radiating from the White River. As the scores indicate - typically gelid to frozen - the shots seem to fall in the unflattering to outright frightening range. But prepare for disillusionment, too, for these artists were blissfully ignorant of more than just the watery liberalism we now cringingly sip like gelid, day-old decaf. In two rows, we soldiers wait in the gelid night, parked in what appears to be a square designated for maneuvers. Christmas nears with a vengeance: its jingling bell like a tinkling lily in gelid fluff overhangs the premises where they sell alcoholic beverages and stuff. No sense of chronological development was sketched out in the London installation; indeed, works of different genres were freely mixed and appeared to be floating in a slightly gelid, continuous present. She leapt to another, higher rock and sat on its rim, dangling her toes in the gelid stream. Talking through teeth gritted against the gelid wind, we converse in a muddle of French, English and Arabic. As I run my palm along its breadth, a gelid numbness permeates into my flesh. The wind coming from the gelid ocean was bitter cold, making exposed flesh burn. The lower rims of both catch and trace a spectral glint of the hard white lighting overhead, dipping as if ready to fall like gelid tears - hard little pearls, frozen in mid-roll. Synonyms frozen, freezing, icy, ice-cold, arctic, glacial, polar, frosty, wintry, snowy, bitterly cold, sub-zero, chilly, Siberian, hyperborean, hyperboreal rare algid Derivatives gelidity noun dʒɛˈlɪdɪtidʒɛˈlɪdədi mass nounliterary The quality or condition of being extremely cold or icy. such gripping gelidity was more dangerous than many injuries Origin Early 17th century: from Latin gelidus, from gelu 'frost, intense cold'. Definition of gelid in US English: gelid adjectiveˈjelidˈdʒɛlɪd literary Icy; extremely cold. 冰冷的，极冷的 the gelid pond 冰冷的池塘。 she gave a gelid reply 〈喻〉她冷冷地回答。 Example sentencesExamples Christmas nears with a vengeance: its jingling bell like a tinkling lily in gelid fluff overhangs the premises where they sell alcoholic beverages and stuff. One of these methods is to blanket everyone in a paralyzing, gelid mass of sulfonated sugar polymers - like institutional tapioca pudding. The four vertical tubes look irresistibly floral after the gelid Tatlin monuments and are dedicated to a master at the other end of the modernist pantheon, Henri Matisse. But prepare for disillusionment, too, for these artists were blissfully ignorant of more than just the watery liberalism we now cringingly sip like gelid, day-old decaf. They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them. She leapt to another, higher rock and sat on its rim, dangling her toes in the gelid stream. Talking through teeth gritted against the gelid wind, we converse in a muddle of French, English and Arabic. The lower rims of both catch and trace a spectral glint of the hard white lighting overhead, dipping as if ready to fall like gelid tears - hard little pearls, frozen in mid-roll. I can still recall that gelid winter morning, with the cold wind whistling around my ears. The gelid air cocoons the teams in the intensity of their own efforts. He waited in ghastly silence under the stairs as the doors flung open, sending in a gelid breeze. As the scores indicate - typically gelid to frozen - the shots seem to fall in the unflattering to outright frightening range. The wind coming from the gelid ocean was bitter cold, making exposed flesh burn. The camera is static, and the compositions gelid, lacking any originality. No sense of chronological development was sketched out in the London installation; indeed, works of different genres were freely mixed and appeared to be floating in a slightly gelid, continuous present. In two rows, we soldiers wait in the gelid night, parked in what appears to be a square designated for maneuvers. As I run my palm along its breadth, a gelid numbness permeates into my flesh. This dispassionate view of man and nature brings an icy edge to her work, intensified by her color choice of glacial whites and gelid blues. Didn't they care that the emotional tone of his work swings between the saccharine and the gelid? Although they were high in the mountains, and the wind was from the east, and cold with a foretaste of winter, still, it felt warmer than the gelid air radiating from the White River. Synonyms frozen, freezing, icy, ice-cold, arctic, glacial, polar, frosty, wintry, snowy, bitterly cold, sub-zero, chilly, siberian, hyperborean, hyperboreal Origin Early 17th century: from Latin gelidus, from gelu ‘frost, intense cold’.
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