icy

Other forms of icy

comparative or superlative

icier

comparative or superlative

iciest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about icy

What does icy mean?

icy means "devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in icy?

icy has 2 syllables: i-cy. The stress falls on "i". In IPA it is /ˈaɪsi/.

What is another word for icy?

Close synonyms include frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, wintry. 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 icy a common word?

icy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.