frostlike
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frostlike — adj. like frost, resembling frost … English contemporary dictionary
frostlike — frostˈlike adjective • • • Main Entry: ↑frost … Useful english dictionary
frost — frostless, adj. frostlike, adj. /frawst, frost/, n. 1. a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water. 2. Also called hoarfrost. a covering of minute ice needles, formed from the atmosphere at night upon the ground and… … Universalium
frosted — frost·ed || frÉ”stɪd / frÉ’stɪd adj. covered with frost; glazed, having a frostlike appearance (glass); frostbitten; covered with icing (cake); highlighted, tinted or bleached (about hair) frÉ”st /frÉ’st n. small ice crystals coating a cold… … English contemporary dictionary
frosted — /fraw stid, fros tid/, adj. 1. covered with or having frost. 2. made frostlike in appearance, as certain translucent glass: a frosted window; a frosted light bulb. 3. coated or decorated with frosting or icing, as a cake. 4. (of hair) highlighted … Universalium
pruinose — /prooh euh nohs /, adj. Bot., Zool. covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface. [1820 30; < L pruinosus frosty, equiv. to pruin(a) frost (akin to FREEZE) + osus OSE1] * * * … Universalium
Belleek ware — porcelain from the factory at Belleek, in Fermanagh, Ire. (now Northern Ireland). Extensive local deposits of white feldspar and Cornish china clay and the use of skilled labour from England contributed to the early success of this factory,… … Universalium
frosted — Synonyms and related words: affectless, alcoholic drink, anesthetized, arctic, argent, argentine, autistic, beverage, blunt, canescent, catatonic, chalky, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold blooded, coldhearted, cool, cretaceous,… … Moby Thesaurus
frosty — Synonyms and related words: Olympian, affectless, aloof, anesthetized, arctic, argent, argentine, autistic, backward, bashful, blank, blunt, canescent, catatonic, chalky, chill, chilled, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold blooded, coldhearted,… … Moby Thesaurus
hoary — Synonyms and related words: acknowledged, admitted, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, age old, aged, ageless, along in years, ancient, antediluvian, antique, argent, argentine, auld, canescent, chalky, conventional, cretaceous,… … Moby Thesaurus
