1 (of the weather) extremely cold; cold with FROST:
a frosty morning * He breathed in the frosty air. * It's frosty outside.
2 covered with FROST:
frosty fields
3 unfriendly, in a way that suggests that sb does not approve of sth:
a frosty look / reply * My questions were met with a frosty silence. * The latest proposals were given a frosty reception.
frostily adverb:
'No, thank you,' she said frostily.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for frosty is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is frosty a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, frosty is tagged as adjective.
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