[syn: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Frosty \Frost"y\, a. [Cf. AS. fyrstig.]
1. Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to
congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.
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2. Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.
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3. Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or
courage. --Johnson.
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4. Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white;
gray-haired; as, a frosty head. --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
frosty
adj 1: devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of
unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a
frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a
glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile" [syn:
frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry]
2: covered with frost; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed
and stiff with frost"-Wm.Faulkner [syn: frosty, rimed,
rimy]
3: pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and
frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day";
"snappy weather" [syn: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy,
snappy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
145 Moby Thesaurus words for "frosty":
Olympian, affectless, aloof, anesthetized, arctic, argent,
argentine, autistic, backward, bashful, blank, blunt, canescent,
catatonic, chalky, chill, chilled, chilly, cold, cold as charity,
cold-blooded, coldhearted, constrained, cool, cretaceous, detached,
disaccordant, discreet, dispassionate, distant, drugged, dull,
emotionally dead, emotionless, exclusive, expressionless,
fleecy-white, forbidding, freezing, frigid, frost-beaded,
frost-chequered, frost-covered, frost-fettered, frost-rent,
frostbound, frosted, frostlike, frosty-faced, frozen, gelid,
glacial, grizzled, grizzly, guarded, heartless, hoar, hoar-frosted,
hoary, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, impersonal,
inaccessible, incompatible, inexcitable, inhospitable, inimical,
insusceptible, introverted, lactescent, lily-white, marble,
marmoreal, milky, modest, nippy, niveous, nonemotional, objective,
obtuse, offish, out of touch, passionless, platinum, pure white,
remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent,
retiring, rime-frosted, rimed, seclusive, self-absorbed,
semidiaphanous, semiopaque, semipellucid, semitransparent, shivery,
shrinking, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, soulless,
spiritless, standoff, standoffish, strained, subdued, suppressed,
swan-white, tense, unaffable, unaffectionate, unamiable,
unamicable, unapproachable, uncongenial, uncordial,
undemonstrative, unemotional, unexpansive, unfeeling, unfriendly,
ungenial, unharmonious, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving,
unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsociable,
unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, white, white as snow,
withdrawn