icy
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1.0
- adjective
- /ˈaɪsi/
- There's been a lot of snow here lately, and the roads have been icy.
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Examples
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The steps are icy.
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Watch your step, it's icy there.
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It was February and the roads were icy.
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Drive safely, the roadsare still real icy.
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Two people were killed in crashes on icy roads in northwest Ohio.
Blog text (11) -
The roads are icy.
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Carefully, Erma walked up the icy sidewalk.
Fiction book (2001) -
The sidewalk was covered in a layer of icy slush, making it difficult to walk.
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After the freezing rain, the roads became icy, leading to several accidents.
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She slipped on the icy surface when stepping out of her car.
Synonyms
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A surface that makes you slip or slide
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3.9
Smooth and slippery in a way that makes walking dangerous
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8.6
Having a thin layer of frost or ice crystals
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4.4
Like ice in look, feel, or tone
Antonyms
How Slippery
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Icy comes from ice ('frozen water') and the ending -y ('like'), so think 'like ice' — shiny and slippery — which is why we call roads or branches 'icy' when they are covered in a thin, glassy layer.