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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain;
- Example: "a frigid greeting"
- Example: "got a frosty reception"
- Example: "a frozen look on their faces"
- Example: "a glacial handshake"
- Example: "icy stare"
- Example: "wintry smile"
[syn: frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry]

2. covered with frost;
- Example: "a frosty glass"
- Example: "hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost"-Wm.Faulkner
[syn: frosty, rimed, rimy]

3. pleasantly cold and invigorating;
- Example: "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"
- Example: "a nipping wind"
- Example: "a nippy fall day"
- Example: "snappy weather"
[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. [1913 Webster] 2. Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty. [1913 Webster] 3. Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage. --Johnson. [1913 Webster] 4. Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
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