ice cold

Adjective

ice-cold (comparative more ice-cold, superlative most ice-cold)

1. (broadly, idiomatic) Very cold.
   • Near-synonyms: stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse; see also Thesaurus:cold

   Synonyms:

   cold as ice, icy, freezing cold, freezing, frigid, frosty, stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse, algid, Arctic

   Antonyms:

   boiling hot, steaming hot, piping hot, baking hot, smoking hot, hot, calid, choleric, heated

2. (figuratively) Of a person, look, or behavior: without emotion; distant; (sometimes) silently disapproving.
   • I don't know why she gave me an ice-cold look — I had thought that the topic of conversation was totally innocuous.

   Synonyms:

   cold as ice, icy, frigid, stone cold, frosty

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ice, cold: as cold as ice or nearly so (close to a freezing point).
   • Near-synonyms: stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse; see also Thesaurus:cold

   Synonyms:

   cold as ice, icy, freezing cold, freezing, frigid, frosty, stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse, algid, Arctic

   Antonyms:

   boiling hot, steaming hot, piping hot, baking hot, smoking hot, hot, calid, choleric, heated

See all 4 meanings of ice-cold