gelid
UK/ˈd͡ʒɛl.ɪd//ˈd͡ʒɛl.əd/
gelid adjective: very cold; icy or frosty; frigid.
Adjective
gelid (comparative more gelid, superlative most gelid)
- Very cold; icy or frosty; frigid.
- Of Cassandra-Marat we have spoken often; yet the most surprising truth remains to be spoken: that he actually does not want sense; but, with croaking gelid throat, croaks out masses of the truth, on several things.1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)
- Above the gelid source of mountain springs,
A solitary eagle, circling, flies.1898, Florence Earle Coates, “Siberia”, in Poems
gelid meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
gelid in Tamil
- கடுங்குளிர்
gelid in Bengali
- বরফশীতল, অত্যন্ত ঠান্ডা
gelid in Malayalam
- freezing, frozen, icy
- അതിശീതളമായ, ശിശിരമായ, ഹിമമായ, തണുത്ത, തണുത്തുറഞ്ഞ, തണുത്തുകട്ടിയായ
Examples of gelid in a sentence
- In the worst of summer the tower remained cool, yet the air seemed feverish and gelid when sisters of different Ajahs came too close.2005, Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams:
- Over the roofs of the opposite house-backs, two garden lengths away, the sky is gelid, luminous, sad.2008, David Szalay, London and the South-East:
Forms of gelid
| comparative | more gelid |
|---|---|
| superlative | most gelid |
Origin of gelid
First attested in 1630. From Latin gelidus (“cold”), from gelu (“frost”).
Words formed from gelid
Questions about gelid
- What does gelid mean?
- Gelid means very cold; icy or frosty; frigid.
- What is gelid in Tamil?
- Gelid in Tamil is கடுங்குளிர். See Gelid meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use gelid in a sentence?
- In the worst of summer the tower remained cool, yet the air seemed feverish and gelid when sisters of different Ajahs came too close.
- What part of speech is gelid?
- Gelid is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce gelid?
- Gelid is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛl.ɪd/ (UK).
Words near gelid in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gelid (page history and authors); gelid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Gelid (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gelid (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset 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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