frigidly

1. 1.

   without warmth or enthusiasm

   “`Come in if you have to,' he said frostily”

   Synonymsfrostily

Questions about frigidly

What does frigidly mean?

frigidly means "without warmth or enthusiasm".

How many syllables are in frigidly?

frigidly has 3 syllables and divides as fri-gid-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for frigidly?

Close synonyms include frostily. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is frigidly a common word?

frigidly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.