Glacial

Adjective

 * of, or relating to glaciers
 * 1) * We examined the glacial deposits
 * 2)  Very slowly.
 * 3) * 2010, "Under the volcano", The Economist, 16 Oct 2010:
 * Progress on judicial reform has been glacial, meeting enormous resistance.
 * 1) cold and icy
 * 2) * After the rain and frost, the pavements were glacial
 * 3) having the appearance of ice
 * 4) * On cold days, glacial acetic acid will freeze in the bottle
 * 5) cool and unfriendly
 * 6) * He gave me a glacial stare

Proper noun
Glacial


 * 1)  of the Pleistocene period dominated by the presence of glaciers

Derived terms

 * englacial
 * interglacial
 * postglacial
 * preglacial
 * proglacial
 * subglacial

Thesaurus
Siberian, algid, aloof, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, blast-frozen, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, congealed, cool, crisp, cutting, distant, emotionless, exclusive, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frostbitten, frostnipped, frosty, frozen, frozen solid, gelid, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, icy-cold, inaccessible, inclement, indifferent, keen, nipping, nippy, numbing, penetrating, piercing, pinching, quick-frozen, raw, remote, reserved, rigorous, seclusive, severe, sharp, sharp-frozen, sleety, slushy, snappy, standoffish, stone-cold, subzero, supercooled, unapproachable, unemotional, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, withdrawn

Etymology
From glacial:, from  glacialis:, from glacies:.

Adjective

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 * Finnish: hyinen, jäinen, jäätävä, jääkylmä


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Adjective

 * 1) glacial (all meanings)

Adjective

 * 1) frozen, at the temperature of ice
 * 2) glacial, pertaining to glaciers
 * 3)  frigid, chilly, not cordial

Synonyms

 * xeado
 * xélido

Related terms

 * glaciación

Adjective

 * 1) glacial
 * 2)  frigid, chilly, not cordial

Related terms

 * glacialmente
 * glaciación