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Gelid (adj) means Extremely cold, like ice.

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Extremely cold, like ice.

"In the worst of summer the tower remained cool, yet the air seemed feverish and gelid when sisters of different Ajahs came too close." — Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams (2005)

"For a while he stares out of the window. It is twilight - cold, deepening twilight. Over the roofs of the opposite house-backs, two garden lengths away, the sky is gelid, luminous, sad. A quiet albescent yellow. Everything is very still." — David Szalay, London and the South-East (2008)

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