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icy

adjective

1 icy roads:

frozen, frozen over, iced over, ice-bound, ice-covered, iced up, frosty, frosted, glassy, like a sheet of glass, slippery;

informal slippy;

literary rimy.

2 an icy wind:

freezing, frigid, chill, chilly, chilling, frosty, biting, bitter, raw, arctic, glacial, Siberian, polar, gelid;

British, informal Baltic.

▷antonyms hot, warm.

3 ‘What did you say?’ said an icy voice:

unfriendly, unwelcoming, inhospitable, hostile, forbidding;

cold, cool, chilly, frigid, frosty, glacial, wintry;

stiff, aloof, distant, unsympathetic, disdainful, haughty, stony, stern, hard, fierce;

rare gelid.

▷antonyms friendly.

icy Oxford Dictionary of English