(a.) Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.
(a.) Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.
(a.) Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s not easy to kick well in frigid conditions – and the temperature before kickoff was just shade over 20F.
(2) The incidence of premarital sexual relations was greater among the frigid patients when compared with those who achieved orgasm.
(3) Frigid temperatures made fresh water unavailable, forcing the birds to ingest the saline waters with resultant toxic effects.
(4) That bullshit jury was fixed,” read the placard of a young man in a hoodie, bandana and gloves on the now-frigid streets of a town where clashes with police raged this August.
(5) Mostly, I thought about being at Barack Obama’s inauguration ; not at the ceremony itself, but the back of the crowd approximately three miles away, in frigid DC weather and surrounded by thousands of other scuffling, freezing, depressed-looking people, trying to squeeze a sense of occasion from what felt like being at the back of a demo.
(6) Li spent most of his career ascending the Communist party ranks, beginning in the frigid northern province Heilongjiang in the mid-1980s.
(7) In their cynicism about Putin, western diplomats are making the Ukrainian crisis worse | Mary Dejevsky Read more But the men were exhausted after spending the past month in frigid dugouts with holes blown in the roofs by near-constant shelling.
(8) The remaining women reported sexual frigidity, permanent distress due to changes in menstrual pattern, and a changed attitude to pregnancy as the reason for regret.
(9) The calculations show airway wall temperatures in the upper intrathoracic airways that are below core body temperature during hyperpnea of frigid air and upper thoracic airways that are cooler than more peripheral airways.
(10) Not only did the 49ers, Saints and Chargers all win on the road in frigid conditions, but Colin Kaepernick even rocked up without long sleeves for a game played in temperatures not much higher than 0F.
(11) I feel abandoned,” said Frank Archambault, a relative of the chairman and member of Standing Rock, huddled inside a packed tent on a frigid morning.
(12) Though Obama’s decision led many to leave the camps, a core group remained through the frigid winter , preparing for the expected battle with Trump.
(13) There was no relation found between sexual frigidity and diabetes, essential hypertension, marital status, pathological gynecological findings, or localization of the infarction.
(14) In front of me was a hole cut into the ice and a makeshift stairway led down into a black, frigid abyss.
(15) Short of sending a spacecraft or astronaut to the red planet to haul back rocks, Martian meteorites are the next best thing for scientists seeking to better understand how Earth's neighbour transformed from a tropical environment to a frigid desert.
(16) A comedian Virginie Tellene, better known by her stage name Frigide Barjot, is leading the anti-gay marriage street marches.
(17) Frigidity titles then increased slightly, but dropped to zero after 1979.
(18) However, it will be as cold if not a touch more frigid than the NFC Championship of January 2008.
(19) The commonest causes of female sexual frigidity in general practice are outlined.
(20) Police on site, at the intersection of West Fillmore Street and South Homan Avenue, refused the Guardian access to Homan Square on a frigid recent morning.
Hot
Definition:
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() imp. & p. p. of Hote.
(superl.) Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air.
(superl.) Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager.
(superl.) Lustful; lewd; lecherous.
(superl.) Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard.
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Example Sentences:
(1) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(2) The analgesic activity of morphine was assessed by the hot-plate technique in the offspring of female CFE rats that had received morphine twice daily on days 5 to 12 of pregnancy.
(3) The data indicate that hot flashes may start much earlier and continue far longer than is commonly recognized by physicians or acknowledged in textbooks of gynecology.
(4) The phage is also thermostable in water of the hot spring from which this phage was isolated.
(5) In short term clinical studies, the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on plasma gonadotrophins, maturation of the vaginal epithelium, metabolic parameters of bone resorption and menopausal symptoms (hot flushes, sleep disturbance, genitourinary discomfort and mood alteration) appear to be comparable to those of oral and subcutaneous estrogens, while the undesirable effects of oral estrogens on hepatic metabolism are avoided.
(6) "The government should be doing all it can to put the UK at the forefront of this energy revolution not blowing hot and cold on the issue.
(7) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
(8) To test the hypothesis that EAA agonists are involved in transmission of nociceptive information in the spinal cord, we tested the effect of various opioid, sigma and phencyclidine compounds on the action of NMDA in the tail-flick, hot-plate and biting and scratching nociceptive tests.
(9) Antinociception was studied by measuring tail-flick response to hot (55 degrees C) water.
(10) We had hoped to be back in by now but there was a problem with the hot water.
(11) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
(12) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
(13) The influence of hot and dry climate and nutritional status on dry eye incidence is discussed.
(14) Spoon over the dressing and eat immediately, while the tomatoes are still hot and the bread is crisp.
(15) "The rise in those who are self-employed is good news, but the reality is that those who have turned to freelance work in order to pull themselves out of unemployment and those who have decided to work for themselves face a challenging tax maze that could land them in hot water should they get it wrong," says Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
(16) Writhing response was more influenced after systemic administration of drugs while hot plate latencies was not.
(17) Illness was also significantly associated with eating lightly cooked eggs (unmatched p = 0.02), but not soft boiled eggs, and precooked hot chicken (matched p = 0.006).
(18) Gamma spectra were measured and activities of the detected isotopes were analyzed for 206 high-activity particles (hot particles, HPs) found in northeastern Poland after the Chernobyl accident.
(19) A hot spot in the lung emboli was visualized in two cases.
(20) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.