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frosted

frosted adjective: covered in frost; frosty. Also the simple past and past participle of frost.

Adjective

frosted (comparative more frosted, superlative most frosted)

  1. Covered in frost; frosty.
    • Eiswein is made from frosted grapes.
    Synonyms:
    frosty, frostbound, rimed
  2. Translucent, appearing to be covered in frost.
    • She installed frosted windows, since there was a clear view of her bathroom from her neighbor's bedroom.
    • At the far end of the wide corridor were the doors of a ward. The panels were frosted save for ovals of clear glass at face level.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 19
  3. Damaged by frost.
    • Frosted fruit will be unsalable.
    Synonyms:
    frostbitten
  4. (slang) Extremely intoxicated.
    • I was so frosted after drinking that 12-pack.
    Synonyms:
    drunk

Noun

frosted (plural frosteds)

  1. A kind of milkshake made with ice cream.
    • Except for those times when I am drugging myself with movies, vanilla frosteds, the latest novel, or cremes de nepenthe, it is difficult for me to avoid the bothersome thought […]1947, Geoffrey Hellman, How to Disappear for an Hour, page 266
    • They had continued to laugh at the milk bar, tasting in the chocolate frosteds the unlikely flavor of Mr. Mather's turpitude.1957, Dorothy Erskine, Patrick Dennis, The Pink Hotel, page 49

Also used as

frosted is also the simple past and past participle of frost.

frosted meaning in Nepali

frosted in Nepali

फ्रस्टेड

Examples of frosted in a sentence

  • I think the boss's decision frosted him a bit.
  • Frosted or wastey fruit will be unsalable.
  • She just broke up with some total douche bag loser with frosted tips.” “Frosted tips?

All 19 example sentences with frosted

Synonyms of frosted

All synonyms of frosted

Forms of frosted

Adjective
comparativemore frosted
superlativemost frosted
Noun
pluralfrosteds

Origin of frosted

From frost + -ed.

Words formed from frosted

Phrases with frosted

Questions about frosted

What does frosted mean?
Frosted means covered in frost; frosty.
What is frosted in Nepali?
Frosted in Nepali is फ्रस्टेड. See Frosted meaning in Nepali.
What part of speech is frosted?
Frosted can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near frosted in the dictionary

  1. Frostburg
  2. frostburn
  3. frostburned
  4. frostburns
  5. froste
  6. frosted
  7. frosted heart
  8. frosted liver
  9. frosted ribbon loaf
  10. frosted ribbon loaves
  11. frosted ribbon sandwich

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frosted (page history and authors); frosted (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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