frosty
pronunciation
How to pronounce frosty in British English:
UK [ˈfrɒsti]
How to pronounce frosty in American English:
US [ˈfrɔsti]
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- Adjective:
- devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
- covered with frost
- pleasantly cold and invigorating
Word Origin
- frosty (adj.)
- Old English forstig, fyrstig "as cold as frost;" see frost (n.) + -y (2). Figurative use from late 14c. Related: Frostily; frostiness. Similar formation in Dutch vorstig, German frostig.
Example
- 1. To feel the frosty air , inform the day ;
- 2. Sales of residential real estate look as frosty as the beijing winter .
- 3. The above winter landscape of frosty trees and shrubbery is in denmark , a scandinavian country in northern europe .
- 4. A standby fund for greece of eurodollar 25 billion is rumoured , and euro-zone ministers now seem less frosty at the thought of help from the imf .
- 5. In the early hours of a frosty february morning , a resident in the central mexican town of amozoc heard suspicious noises in the field near his house .