gelid

Questions about gelid

What does gelid mean?

gelid means "extremely cold".

How many syllables are in gelid?

gelid has 2 syllables and divides as ge-lid 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 gelid?

Close synonyms include arctic, frigid, glacial, icy, polar. 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 gelid a common word?

gelid 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.