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Adjective: icy (icier,iciest)  Isee
  1. Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
    "icy stare"
    - frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, wintry
     
  2. Extremely cold
    "icy hands"
    - arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, 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"

Derived forms: icier, iciest

See also: cold, frozen, glazed, ice, icily, iciness, shiny

Encyclopedia: Icy