icy
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1.0
- adjective
- /ˈaɪsi/
:
helado
- Winter has locked us in its icy embrace.
- icy water
- icy surface
- icy conditions
If you ski too fast down a hill with icy hazards, you crash.
- If you ski too fast down a hill with icy hazards, you crash.
- So we're going to kick it off over here with an icy witch's brew.
- This is the top of an icy, snowy mountain.
- No, I've done like I but it was icy and I went down, dude.
- Maybe because I just tried this icy part down here.
- So there's like a giant, like vast icy rock thingy.
- I can't wait to sit in this and watch the icy world go by.
Examples
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A family of three gray whales... have found themselves trapped in the icy waters off Point Barrow.
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This is the top of an icy, snowy mountain.
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Just adding to that effect of icy cold beer.
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Still probably a little too icy for me, but it's not bad.
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It's a bit icy at the top.
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Would one of us have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save them?
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A thin film of water now coated his rigid, icy face, running down into his clothes.
Fiction book (1992) -
A cold gust of wind tore at her with icy fingers that shot through her worn dress.
Fiction book (1992) -
"Give me a break," she muttered, shaking the icy pelt from her eyes.
Fiction book (1990) -
The hiker slipped on the icy path and fell into the snow.
Synonyms
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4.1
Very cold, like ice or freezing air
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1.3
Very cold, at or below freezing
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4.5
Very cold, like the weather near the North Pole
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Cold, often with a thin layer of ice on the ground
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6.1
Very cold in temperature like ice
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Covered with ice because of very cold weather
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4.1
Very cold with no warmth left
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9.9
Very cold, like ice or frost
So cold that water turns to ice
Much colder than normal, for example in special freezers or very cold weather
Like ice in look, feel, or tone
Antonyms
How Cold
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Icy comes from the word ice ('frozen water') plus the ending -y ('like' or 'full of'). So it literally means 'like ice', which is why we use it for something very cold or covered with ice.