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algid
adjective as in cold
adjective as in cool
adjective as in ice-cold
adjective as in shivery
Weak matches
- 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
- Siberian
- sleety
- snappy
- snowy
- stinging
- two-dog night
- wintry
Example Sentences
The skin is perceptibly cold in the algid stage of cholera.
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!
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.
Equally ineffectual are other means used for communicating heat to the algid body and thereby reviving its functions.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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