Icy \I"cy\, a. [Compar. Icier; superl. Iciest.] [AS.
   [imac]sig. See Ice.]
   1. Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold;
      frosty. "Icy chains." --Shak. "Icy region." --Boyle. "Icy
      seas." --Pope.
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   2. Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.;
      chilling; frigid; cold.
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            Icy was the deportment with which Philip received
            these demonstrations of affection.    --Motley.
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	icy
    adj 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" [syn:
           frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry]
    2: extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid
       waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands";
       "polar weather" [syn: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial,
       icy, polar]
    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"

	

	157 Moby Thesaurus words for "icy":
   Olympian, Siberian, affectless, algid, aloof, anesthetized, arctic,
   autistic, backward, bashful, below zero, biting, bitter,
   bitterly cold, blank, blast-frozen, bleak, blunt, boreal, brisk,
   brumal, catatonic, chill, chilled, chilly, cold, cold as charity,
   cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, cold-blooded,
   coldhearted, congealed, constrained, cool, crisp, cutting,
   detached, disaccordant, discreet, dispassionate, distant, drugged,
   dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, exclusive, expressionless,
   forbidding, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frostbitten, frosted,
   frostnipped, frosty, frozen, frozen solid, gelid, glacial, guarded,
   heartless, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice, ice-cold,
   ice-encrusted, icelike, icy-cold, immovable, impassible, impassive,
   impersonal, inaccessible, inclement, incompatible, indifferent,
   inexcitable, inhospitable, inimical, insusceptible, introverted,
   keen, modest, nipping, nippy, nonemotional, numbing, objective,
   obtuse, offish, out of touch, passionless, penetrating, piercing,
   pinching, quick-frozen, raw, remote, removed, repressed, reserved,
   restrained, reticent, retiring, rigorous, seclusive, self-absorbed,
   severe, sharp, sharp-frozen, shivery, shrinking, sleety, slushy,
   snappy, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish, stone-cold,
   strained, subdued, subzero, supercooled, suppressed, tense,
   unaffable, unaffectionate, unamiable, unamicable, unapproachable,
   uncongenial, uncordial, undemonstrative, unemotional, unexpansive,
   unfeeling, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unimpassioned,
   unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unresponding,
   unresponsive, unsociable, unsusceptible, unsympathetic,
   untouchable, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, withdrawn