Gelid vs Glacial - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between gelid and glacial

is that gelid is very cold; icy or frosty while glacial is of, or relating to glaciers.

of the Pleistocene period dominated by the presence of glaciers.

(en adjective)

Very cold; icy or frosty.

* . (rfdate)

A man of gelid reserve.

* 2005 , :

In the worst of summer the tower remained cool, yet the air seemed feverish and gelid when sisters of different Ajahs came too close.

* gelidity / gelidness * gelidly

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(en adjective)

of, or relating to glaciers

* We examined the glacial deposits

(figuratively) very slow

* 2010 , "Under the volcano", The Economist , 16 Oct 2010:

Progress on judicial reform has been glacial , meeting enormous resistance.

cold and icy

* After the rain and frost, the pavements were glacial

having the appearance of ice

* On cold days, glacial acetic acid will freeze in the bottle

cool and unfriendly

* He gave me a glacial stare

* englacial * interglacial * monoglacial * postglacial * preglacial * proglacial * subglacial * supraglacial ----