glacial
Things that are glacial are super cold. A place can be glacial — like the South Pole — but a person can be glacial, too, like that unfriendly girl who gave you a glacial stare.
The word glacial is related to the word glacier, which is a huge piece of ice. If something or someone is glacial, that thing or person is icy. You can give someone you don’t like a glacial look, or you can go skiing on a glacial morning. Glacial comes from the Latin glacies, which sounds like the name of a frozen dessert, but which actually just means "ice."
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relating to or derived from a glacier“glacial deposit”
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extremely cold
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devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
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very slow, like the movement of a glacier
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