glacialEnglishOxford American Thesaurusglacial adjective 1 glacial conditions: freezing, bitterly cold, icy, ice-cold, subzero, frozen, wintry; arctic, polar, Siberian; bitter, biting, piercing, raw, cutting; British, informal Baltic; literary chill, frore; rare gelid, brumal, rimy, algid. ▷antonyms tropical, hot. 2 Polly's tone was glacial: unfriendly, frosty, icy, wintry, cold, chilly, frigid, hostile, unwelcoming; rare gelid. ▷antonyms friendly, warm.