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algid
adjective as in cold
adjective as in cool
adjective as in ice-cold
adjective as in shivery
Weak matches
- Siberian
- arctic
- below freezing
- below zero
- benumbed
- biting
- bitter
- blasting
- bleak
- boreal
- brisk
- brumal
- chill
- chilled
- chilly
- cool
- crisp
- cutting
- frigid
- frore
- frosty
- frozen
- gelid
- glacial
- have goose bumps
- hawkish
- hiemal
- hyperborean
- icebox
- iced
- icy
- inclement
- intense
- keen
- nipping
- nippy
- numbed
- numbing
- one-dog night
- penetrating
- piercing
- polar
- raw
- rimy
- severe
- sharp
- sleety
- snappy
- snowy
- stinging
- two-dog night
- wintry
Example Sentences
In the comatose form the surface is preternaturally warm, of a muddy, semi-jaundiced hue, and the pulse and temperature both indicate the feverish rather than the algid state.
Harry felt an algid chill creep over him.
For, of all the miracles!—I could not doubt—an actual aroma like peach-blossom was in the algid air about me!
The algid or congestive form occurs more frequently than either of the others.
If the attack has been very severe, and particularly if the algid stage has been prolonged, fever of a low type is apt to occur, and indeed may terminate fatally.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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