ice-cold
/ˈaɪskəʊld/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.71 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Very cold.
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ice, cold: as cold as ice or nearly so (close to a freezing point).
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse; see also Thesaurus:cold"
- "I'm going to put my coat back on — I'm ice-cold again!"
- "I don't know why she gave me an ice-cold look — I had thought that the topic of conversation was totally innocuous."
- "ice-cold beer here"
- "It's best to serve this dessert while it's still ice-cold."
- "Now I'm sitting here Sipping on my ice-cold beer Lazing on a sunny afternoon."
Etymology
From Middle English *is-cold, from Old English īsċeald; equivalent to ice + cold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ieskoold (“ice-cold”), West Frisian iiskâld (“ice-cold”), Dutch ijskoud (“ice-cold”), Afrikaans yskoud (“ice-cold”), German Low German ieskold (“ice-cold”), German eiskalt (“ice-cold”), Yiddish אײַזקאַלט (ayzkalt, “ice-cold”), Danish iskold (“ice-cold”), Swedish iskall (“ice-cold”), Norwegian iskald (“ice-cold”), Faroese ísakaldur (“ice-cold”), Icelandic ískaldur (“ice-cold”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *is-cold, īsċeald
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈaɪskəʊld/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more ice-cold (comparative)
most ice-cold (superlative)
icecold (alternative)
ice cold (alternative)
ice-colds (plural)