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frosted

frosted

4 2.8
Covered with a thin layer of ice or sweet icing
  • adjective
  • /ˈfrɔːstɪd/
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  • The cake was beautifully frosted with a smooth layer of sugary icing.
  • Frosted Flakes
  • Frosted Pop-Tarts
  • Frosted Chocolate

Oh man, this is some S'mores frosted pop Tarts.

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Examples

  • Oh man, this is some S'mores frosted pop Tarts.

  • But actually, if this cake was perfectly frosted, it wouldn't have the same impact.

  • There we go, super nice frosted glass bottle and it's like a really nice lightweight oil.

  • That's a delicious frosted sugar cookie, James.

  • But I could see, through the frosted glass of the door, Mamu hovering just outside.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • At the front of the room, a counter topped with frosted-glass panels.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • This cereal is called frosted Kale Flakes.

  • Am I really holding a pink frosted sprinkled doughnut belt buckle?

  • Magic Spoon has four amazing flavors, fruity, frosted cocoa and peanut butter.

  • Available flavors to build your very own custom bundle are Cocoa, Fruity, Frosted Peanut Butter, Blueberry.

Synonyms

frosty
vsfrosted
11 1.0

Cold, often with a thin layer of ice on the ground

can also mean a surface topping of sugar rather than coldness
sugar-coated
vsfrosted
3 2.5

Has sugar on the outside to make it sweet and not sticky

can instead refer to a thin natural ice coating from cold
rimed
vsfrosted
  • UK
8.6

Having a thin layer of frost or ice crystals

can instead mean either that ice layer or a sugar icing
rimy
vsfrosted
9.9

Covered with a thin white layer of frost

can also mean a sugary icing rather than natural hoarfrost

Antonyms

217 2.2

Not covered or protected, showing the plain surface

208 1.0

Simple and not decorated or flavored

Compounds

8.8

A small bat with fur that has white tips

How Coated

glazed
3.5
frosted
4 2.8
dust-covered
1 2.1
bare
217 2.2

Surface Forms

frosted positive

Morphology

frosted = frost (transparent) = frost + ed

Both senses ('covered with frost' and 'covered with icing') are straightforward past-participle/adjectival uses of the verb 'frost'.

Etymology

Frosted comes from frost, meaning 'a thin layer of ice', and people began to use it for food when a sugar or icing layer looked like icy frost. That's why frosted can mean 'covered with frost' for plants or 'covered with icing' for cakes and donuts.