Glacial

Synonyms for "glacial" (106 found)

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Closest matches (22)

cold freezing frigid algid aloof arctic below zero biting bitter bitterly cold blast-frozen bleak boreal brisk brumal chill chilly cold as charity cold as death cold as ice

Adjective(1 words)

arctic

Adjective(1 words)

brick

Strong matches (31)

cold as marble congealed cool crisp cutting distant emotionless exclusive freezing cold frostbitten frostnipped frosty frozen frozen solid gelid hibernal hiemal hyperborean ice ice cold

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ice-cold ice-encrusted icelike

Adjective(2 words)

dreich dull

Adjective(4 words)

frigid frosty frozen gelid

Noun(2 words)

glacial period ice age

Related words (53)

icy icy-cold inaccessible inclement indifferent keen nipping nippy numbing penetrating period piercing pinching quick-frozen raw remote reserved rigorous seclusive severe

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sharp sharp-frozen siberian sleety slushy snappy standoffish stone cold stone-cold subzero supercooled time unapproachable undemonstrative unemotional winterbound winterlike wintery wintry withdrawn

Adjective(3 words)

icy polar wintry

Adjective(10 words)

inert lethargic remiss slow sluggish steady subglacial sullen torpid unspeedy

Related word relations

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8 relation types

More specific

9 entries

englacial interglacial monoglacial periglacial postglacial preglacial proglacial subglacial supraglacial

Synonyms

2 entries

freezing frigid

coordinate

1 entries

interglacial

derived

31 entries

deglacial equiglacial fluvioglacial glacial acetic acid glacial acid glacial buzz saw glacial drift glacial erratic glacial flour glacial humour glacial lake glacial lake outburst flood glacial maximum glacial milk glacial period glacial polish

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derived from

1 entries

glacier

has context

1 entries

geology

related to

15 entries

appearance cold colloquially cool dominated glacial till glacier ice ice age icy period pleistocene presence slow unfriendly

similar

2 entries

cold

Translations

39 translations across 17 languages.

Bulgarian

2 entries

леден adj (cold and icy)
ледников adj (relating to glaciers)

Catalan

2 entries

glacial adj (relating to glaciers)
glacial adj (cold and icy)

Czech

2 entries

glaciální adj (relating to glaciers)
glaciální adj (cold and icy)

Danish

3 entries

glacial adj (relating to glaciers)
glacialtid noun (glacial period)
istid noun (glacial period)

Finnish

4 entries

hyinen adj (cold and icy)
jäinen adj (cold and icy)
jääkylmä adj (cold and icy)
jäätävä adj (cold and icy)

French

1 entries

glacial adj (cold and icy)

German

4 entries

eisig adj (cold and icy)
eiskalt adj (cold and icy)
glazial adj (relating to glaciers)
Eiszeit noun (glacial period)

Greek

1 entries

παγετωνικός adj (relating to glaciers)

Ido

4 entries

glacia adj (cold and icy)
glaciala adj (cold and icy)
glaciatra adj (cold and icy)
glaciera adj (relating to glaciers)

Irish

1 entries

oighreach adj (relating to glaciers)

Manx

1 entries

rioee adj (relating to glaciers)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

glasial adj (relating to glaciers)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

glasial adj (relating to glaciers)

Polish

2 entries

glacjalny adj (relating to glaciers)
lodowcowy adj (relating to glaciers)

Russian

1 entries

леднико́вый adj (relating to glaciers)

Spanish

4 entries

glacial adj (cold and icy)
glaciar adj (relating to glaciers)
gélido adj (cold and icy)
era glacial noun (glacial period)

Ukrainian

1 entries

льодовико́вий adj (relating to glaciers)

Sample sentences

23 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Glacial meltwater is not purer than other types of water.

Source: tatoeba (2677002)

Glacial water gets its colour from rock flour.

Source: tatoeba (2677003)

No one wished it so, but we are the first species to become a geophysical force, altering Earth's climate, a role previously reserved for tectonics, sun flares, and glacial cycles.

Source: tatoeba (5705219)

There are three glacial fjords in Ireland.

Source: tatoeba (6047951)

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