Frigid vs Freezing - What's the difference?
frigid | freezing |
Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.
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Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive.
(colloquial) Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman.
(literally) Suffering or causing frost
(by extension, chiefly, hyperbole) Very cold
(uncountable, physics, chemistry) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
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(countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
Freezing is a synonym of frigid.
Freezing is a antonym of frigid.
As adjectives the difference between frigid and freezing
is that frigid is very cold; lacking warmth; icy while freezing is suffering or causing frost.As a noun freezing is
the change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.As a verb freezing is
present participle of lang=en.frigid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.}}
Antonyms
* fervidReferences
* *freezing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (literally) frosty * (very cold) ice-cold, icyNoun
(wikipedia freezing)- Hence, there is a succession of thawings and freezings . The former expand, and endeavour to restore the surface of the ground to its natural condition, while the latter contract and harden it.