Icy

Definition: Icy

Icy

Adjective

1. Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile".

2. Extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "let's get inside; I'm freezing"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather".

3. Covered with or containing or consisting of ice; "icy northern waters".

4. Shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice; "roads and trees glazed with an icy film".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "icy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Icy \I"cy\, adjective. [Comparative Icier; superlative Iciest.]. (references)

ICY

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Icy

Cold

Icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal; hyperborean, hyperboreal; icebound; frozen out.

Adjective: cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved. (made cold); chilled to the bone, shivering. Verb: aguish, transi de froid; frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped.

Crosswords: Icy

And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

From the land of Bora Bora to the icy shores of Tripoley (James and the Giant Peach; writing credit: Karey Kirkpatrick)

Howard. They say it might get icy later (Jingle All the Way; writing credit: Randy Kornfield)

As for me, icy gleaming pinky diamond ring (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet)

Icy fingers up and down my spine ("That Old Black Magic"; performing artist: Louis Prima & Keely Smith)

And I feel it in the icy dawn (God Gave My Everything; performing artist: Mick Jagger)

Icy grip, tellin me to leave wit you and your friends (Ride Wit Me (Featuring City Spud); performing artist: Nelly)

Around the icy waters underground (Astronomy domine; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

I see Isis's icy eyes. (references; author: unknown)

Icy Eyes (1927)

Ambrose's Icy Love (1918)

Ignatz's Icy Injury (1916)

Greenland's Icy Mountains (1916)

Icy Death (1991)

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Books

• Icy Pleasures: Minnesota Celebrates Winter (reference)

• Icy Sparks (reference)

• Icy Watermelon/ Sandía Fría (reference)

• Polar Bear: Growing Up in the Icy North (Reader's Digest All-Star Readers Level 3) (reference)

• The Ithaqua Cycle: The Wind-Walker of the Icy Wastes (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Icy Lake [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• The Icy DETails [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Cobra MicroTalk Snap Interchangeable Front - Icy Pink Metallic (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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The Hubble telescope has detected a long-sought population of comets dwelling at the icy ... Credit: NASA.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed the inner core surrounding the icy nucleus of ... Credit: NASA.

Skiff in icy conditions. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Photo #1 of Mount St. Elias sequence. Mount Saint Elias is one of the largest mountains visible from the sea on the North American continent. It rises to a height of 18,008 feet in a distance of less than 20 miles from sea level at Icy Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Photo #2 of Mount St. Elias sequence. Mount Saint Elias is one of the largest mountains visible from the sea on the North American continent. It rises to a height of 18,008 feet in a distance of less than 20 miles from sea level at Icy Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Jellyfish along an icy shoreline. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Adelie penquins on the march across an icy landscape. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Salmon purse seiner in Icy Bay. Credit: Fisheries.

Lieutenant Bill Harrigan flying Bell 206 during Icy Bay current studies. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

The Tide Gauge Team installing a tide gauge in the icy waters of Tracy Arm. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment." It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. (reference)

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Whose icy breast no pity warms, Whose little victims sit in swarms, And slowly sob on lower forms

An icy wind whistled at the window and came into the room

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Business

The Norwegian winter can be rough on vehicles and Norwegian buyers are especially conscious of how the vehicle will handle snowy and icy road conditions. (references)

Travel

Russia

In winter one must be prepared for either slush or icy sidewalks. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "icy": icy expanse. Additional references.

Beginning with "icy": icy-black, icy-blue, icy-cold, icy-cool, icy-eyed, icy-fresh, icy-handed, Icy-pearled.

Ending with "icy": de-icy.

Albanian

i veshur me akull, i akullt (chill, cold-hearted, cutting, freezing, frigid, frozen, gelid, glacial, ice). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مثلج (frosted, frosty, frozen, glace, glacial, ice cold, iced, water ice), ‏جليدي (glacial), ‏بارد جدا (bleak, frosty, gelid, perishing cold, raw). (various references)

Bavarian

eis. (various references)

Bulgarian 

студен (algid, asepsis, bleak, bloodless, cold, cool, dead, frigid, frosted, frosty, gelid, iced, impassive, inhuman, raw, repulsive, stony, unapproachable, undersexed, unloving, unresponsive, winterly, wintry), мразовит (chilly, frigid, frosty, ice cold), замръзнал (frozen, set), заледен (frozen, ice, sleety), ледовит, леден (algid, freezing, frozen, gelid, glacial, ice, ice cold). (various references)

Chinese 

冰冷. (various references)

Czech

zledovatìly, námraza (hoarfrost, icing), mrazivý (chilly, freezing, frigid, frosty, glacial, nippy, winterly, wintry), ledový (arctic, gelid, glacial, ice cold, iced, stone cold, stony, winterly, wintry), jako led. (various references)

Dutch

ijzig, ijskoud (iced), ijs-, ijzig, ijskoud, ijs‐, ýzig, ýskoud, ýs-. (various references)

Esperanto

glacia. (various references)

Farsi 

یخی (Iceman), پوشیده ازیخ , خنک (Breezy, Chilly, Cool, Flat, Fresh, Vapid), بسیارسرد. (various references)

Finnish

jäinen (of ice), jääkylmä (ice-cold), hyinen. (various references)

French

verglacé, glacial, glacé (iced). (various references)

German

eisig (chilling, freezing, frigid, frosty, glacial, glacially, icily). (various references)

Greek 

παγωμένοσ (chilled, frosted, frozen, glace, iced, rind), παγωμένος (frozen), παγερόσ (bitter, chill, frosty), παγετώδησ (glacial). (various references)

Hebrew 

קופא (freezing), קרחי (glacial), קר (chilly, cold, cool, crisp, frigid). (various references)

Hungarian

jeges (chill, frigid, frore, frosty, gelid, glacial, iced), hideg (algid, bleak, chill, chilling, chilly, cold, frigid, frosty, metallic, steely, stony, to be frozen to the marrow). (various references)

Indonesian

amat dingin (gelid). (various references)

Italian

ghiacciato (freezing, frozen). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

冷たい　 (chilly, cold to the touch, coldhearted, freezing), 冷たい (chilly, cold, coldhearted, freezing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つめたい (chilly, cold, coldhearted, freezing). (various references)

Korean 

얼음 (ICE, Icier, Iciest). (various references)

Manx

rioeeagh (freezing, frosty), feayr (chilly, cold, cool, distant, distant of person, frigid, frosty). (various references)

Norwegian

iskald, isete, glatt (even, flush, glib, glossy, lank). (various references)

Pig Latin

icyay.(various references)

Portuguese

gelado (bleak, chill, free-for-all, frigid, frosty, frozen, gelid, ice-cold, iced, nipping, winterly, wintry), glacial (chill, freezing, frigid, frosty, gelid, glacial, winterly, wintry). (various references)

Romanian

rece (apathetically, bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, coldly, cool, crisp, damp, dank, distant, freezingly, frigid, frosty, glacial, hard-hearted, icily, immovable, impersonal, inhuman, nippy, reserved, snappy, stale, stiff, stony, wintery, wintry), glacial (chill, chilly, cold, damp, frigid, frigidly, frosty, gelid, glacial, icily), gheţos, frigid (frigid), de gheaţã (glacial), îngheţat (dead, frosty, frozen, gelid). (various references)

Russian 

ледяной (freezing, gelid, glacial, ice, ice-cold, sleetcold). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrlo hladan, leden (frigid, gelid, hyperborean, ice, icily). (various references)

Spanish

helado (cake ice, deep-frozen, freezing, frosty, frozen, glace, ice, ice cream, lark, water ice), glacial (arctic, bitter, chilly, freezing, frosty, glacial, stony), gélido (gelid), algido. (various references)

Swedish

iskall (freezing, freezing cold, gelid, ice cold, stone cold), isande (icily). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งเต็มไปด้วยน้ำแข็ง, ซึ่งเย็นชา. (various references)

Turkish

buzlu (frappe, frosted, frosty, ground, iced, mat, Matt, on the rocks, with ice), buzla kaplı (frosted), buz gibi (arctic, chill, freezing, frigid, gelid, icily, nippy, sour, very cold, wintry). (various references)

Ukrainian

холодний (arctic, bleak, chill, chilly, cold, frigid, gelid, nippy, offish), крижаний (arctic, gelid, glacial, ice cold, winterly, wintry), льодяний (arctic), льодовиковий (glacial). (various references)

Vietnamese 

có băng băng giá, đóng băng phủ băng. (various references)

Welsh

rhewllyd (frigid, frosty). (various references)

gelidus, glacialis. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "icy": impolicy, juicy, policy, pricy, sluicy, spicy, theodicy. (additional references)

Words containing "icy": acetylsalicylate, acetylsalicylates, alicyclic, anticyclone, anticyclones, anticyclonic, bicycle, bicycled, bicycler, bicyclers, bicycles, bicyclic, bicycling, bicyclist, bicyclists, dicyclic, dicyclies, dicycly, dicynodont, dicynodonts, epicycle, epicycles, epicyclic, epicycloid, epicycloidal, epicycloids, ferricyanide, ferricyanides, hemicycle, hemicycles, pericycle, pericycles, pericyclic, policyholder, policyholders, salicylate, salicylates, semicylindrical, tricycle, tricycles, tricyclic, tricyclics, unicycle, unicycles, unicyclist, unicyclists. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Icy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acoy, acy, bcy, biccy, bicey, cii, Cij, cyf, cyy, dicy, eacy, ec, Ecci, eci, ecky, ecoy, ecy, ecz, eyc, hicy, iby, ica, icc, icca, iccc, Iccd, iccs, icd, icey, icf, ich, ici, icic, Icif, icir, icm, icn, ico, icp, icq, ict, icu, icyb, idy, ify, Igy, iicx, Ikb, ikey, Ikkyu, iko, Ikoyi, iky, Ily, Imcv, imy, iny, ioc, Iocu, Ioy, iry, Iscd, Ishi, ishy, isi, Issy, isty, isy, Isyn, ity, Iucd, Ivcl, Ivco, ixy, iy, iys, izy, Liccy, micy, nicy, oiky, qic, ricy, ticey, xci, Xic, ycl. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

+1 letter: city, icky, pyic.

+2 letters: acidy, chivy, cissy, civvy, cylix, cynic, dicey, dicky, dicty, icily, itchy, juicy, kicky, lyric, lytic, mincy, picky, pricy, pyric, spicy, typic, vichy, yince, yogic, yonic, zincy.

+3 letters: acidly, acuity, amylic, atypic, beylic, bitchy, bricky, cagily, cairny, cavity, chicly, chilly, chinky, chippy, chirpy, chitty, chivvy, chymic, cicely, citify, cliffy, clingy, cliquy, clypei, codify, comity, cosily, coying, coyish, cozily, crikey, crimpy, crispy, crying, cyanic, cyanid, cyanin, cyclic, cyesis, cymlin, cymoid, cynics, cystic, dickey, dickys, dioecy, dyadic, fickly, fitchy, glycin, hickey, hydric, hyenic, hypnic, ickily, idiocy, incony, lacily, lyrics, mickey, myopic, myotic, myrica, mystic, mythic, nicely, nicety, pacify, phylic, physic, piracy, pitchy, policy, pricey, pricky, pyemic, pyknic, racily, richly, rickey, schizy, scyphi, sickly, sluicy, spicey, sticky, syndic, thymic, tricky, wicopy, wincey, witchy, yoicks, yttric, zincky.