icy
The word “icy” has 2 syllables: i-cy
It's pronounced as /ˈaɪsi/
What is synonym and antonym for icy?
In the thesaurus, “icy” has 101 synonyms and 65 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for icy along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for icy
- algid
- algific
- aloof
- antarctic
- antiseptic
- antisocial
- apathetic
- arctic
- biting
- bitter
- bloodless
- bone-chilling
- bracing
- brisk
- brittle
- chill
- chilled
- chilled to the bone
- chilling
- chilly
- clammy
- cold
- cold-blooded
- cold-eyed
- coldhearted
- coldish
- cool
- cooled
- coolish
- crisp
- cryogenic
- cutting
- detached
- dispassionate
- distant
- emotionless
- forbidding
- freezing
- frigid
- frigorific
- frost-bound
- frosted
- frosty
- frozen
- frozen over
- gelid
- glacial
- glaring
- hard-eyed
- hard-hearted
- heartless
- hostile
- ice-cold
- iced
- impersonal
- indifferent
- invigorating
- keen
- kindless
- nipping
- nippy
- numbing
- offish
- penetrating
- piercing
- pitiless
- polar
- raw
- refrigerated
- reserved
- rigorous
- rimy
- sharp
- shivering
- shivery
- sleeted
- smooth as glass
- snappy
- soulless
- standoffish
- steely
- stony
- subfreezing
- subzero
- ultracold
- uncaring
- uncordial
- undemonstrative
- unemotional
- unenthusiastic
- unfeeling
- unfriendly
- unheated
- uninterested
- unresponsive
- unsociable
- unsocial
- unsympathetic
- unwelcoming
- wintery
- wintry
Antonyms for icy
- amicable
- ardent
- blazing
- boiling
- broiling
- burning
- canicular
- compassionate
- cordial
- demonstrative
- eager
- emotional
- enflamed
- enthusiastic
- equatorial
- expressive
- fervent
- fervid
- feverish
- fiery
- flushed
- friendly
- genial
- glowing
- happy
- hearty
- heated
- hot
- igneous
- inflamed
- kind
- kindhearted
- lukewarm
- molten
- muggy
- overheated
- passionate
- piping hot
- red-hot
- reheated
- roasting
- scalding
- scorching
- searing
- seething
- sizzling
- snug
- steamy
- sultry
- summery
- sweltering
- sympathetic
- tepid
- toasty
- torrid
- tropical
- ultrahot
- unfrozen
- warm
- warm-blooded
- warmed
- warmhearted
- warming
- watery
- white-hot
Meanings of icy
- adjective
- Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in ice; cold; frosty.
- Covered with ice, wholly or partially.
- Characterized by coldness of manner; frigid; cold.
- To be wearing an excessive amount of jewelry, especially of the high-quality and expensive kind.
Example Sentences
- The mountain stream flowed swiftly, its waters becoming icy as it descended from the snowy peaks.
- Her stare was as cold and icy as the winter wind that swept through the deserted street.
- The air in the freezer was so icy that my breath turned into frost.
- The road was treacherous, covered in an icy glaze that made driving hazardous.
- The atmosphere in the room became icy when they realized they were on opposing sides of the argument.
On this page you'll find 166 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to icy, such as: algid, algific, aloof, amicable, antarctic, antiseptic, antisocial.
Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.
Related Words
ice-cold
- Siberian
- algid
- arctic
- biting
- bitter
- bitterly cold
- bone-chilling
- bracing
- brisk
- brumal
- chill
- chilled
- chilly
- cold
- coldish
- cool
- cooled
- coolish
- crisp
- cryogenic
- cutting
- freezing
- frigid
- frosted
- frosty
- frozen
- gelid
- glacial
- iced
- icy
- invigorating
- keen
- nipping
- nippy
- numbing
- penetrating
- piercing
- polar
- raw
- refrigerated
- rigorous
- sharp
- shivery
- snappy
- sub-zero
- subfreezing
- subzero
- ultracold
- unheated
- wintery
- wintry
iced
- Siberian
- algid
- algific
- annihilated
- antarctic
- apparent
- arctic
- assassinated
- assured
- attested
- bashful
- bedfast
- bedridden
- below freezing
- below zero
- benumbed
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- bleak
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- blotted out
- boreal
- bottled-up
- bound
- bracing
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- brumal
- bumped off
- butchered
- buttoned-up
- carried off
- certified
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- chill
- chilled
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- chilling
- chilly
- cinched
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- clear
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- faint
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- freezing
- frigid
- frigorific
- frore
- frost-bound
- frosted
- frosty
- frozen
- frozen over
- gelid
- glacial
- glaring
- got
- grounded
- guaranteed
- guarantied
- hampered
- have goose bumps
- hawkish
- held
- hiemal
- hog-tied
- hush
- hushed
- hyperborean
- ice-cold
- ice-covered
- icebound
- icebox
- icy
- immured
- imprisoned
- in chains
- in jail
- in the bag
- inarticulate
- incarcerated
- inclement
- incoherent
- incommodious
- inconversable
- indisposed
- indisputable
- indistinct
- inhibited
- insured
- intense
- invalided
- invigorating
- jailed
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- killed
- knocked off
- laconic
- laid up
- liquidated
- locked up
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- mousy
- mum
- murdered
- mute
- muted
- nailed down
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- nipping
- nippy
- noiseless
- nonvocal
- not talkativ
- not talkative
- numb
- numbed
- numbing
- obvious
- offed
- on ice
- one-dog night
- ordinary
- penetrating
- pent
- piercing
- plain
- pledged
- polar
- promised
- put away
- raw
- refrigerated
- reserved
- restrained
- restricted
- reticent
- rigorous
- rimy
- routine
- rubbed out
- sealed up
- secured
- self-evident
- self-explanatory
- severe
- sewn-up
- sharp
- shivering
- shivery
- shot
- shot down
- shut-in
- shy
- sick
- silentious
- simple
- slaughtered
- sleeted
- sleety
- slew
- smooth as glass
- smote
- snappy
- snowy
- snuffed
- soundless
- still
- stinging
- straightforward
- struck dumb
- subfreezing
- subzero
- swore
- taciturn
- terminated
- tongue-tied
- took out
- two-dog night
- unclear
- uncommunicative
- undeniable
- undisguised
- unheard
- unheated
- unmistakable
- unsociable
- unspeaking
- voiceless
- vouched
- warranted
- whacked
- wintery
- wintry
- wiped out
- witnessed
- wordless
- zapped
- zipped
mad
- aberrant
- absurd
- acrid
- acrimonious
- acrimoniousness
- acrimony
- affront
- aggravate
- aggravated
- aggravation
- agitated
- air rage
- airheaded
- amok
- amuck
- anger
- angered
- angriness
- angry
- animosity
- annoy
- annoyance
- annoyed
- antagonism
- antagonistic
- antagonize
- antipathetic
- antipathy
- antisocial
- ape
- apoplectic
- ardent
- argumentative
- around the bend
- asinine
- avid
- ballistic
- balmy
- bananas
- barmy
- bats
- batty
- bearish
- bedlam
- belligerence
- belligerent
- bent out of shape
- berserk
- bile
- bilious
- biliousness
- birdbrained
- birse
- bitter
- bitterness
- blowup
- blue in the face
- boiling
- bonkers
- boobish
- brain-dead
- brainless
- brainsick
- bristling
- bristly
- bubbleheaded
- buffoonish
- bughouse
- burning
- cantankerous
- certifiable
- chafe
- cheesed off
- choler
- choleric
- chowderheaded
- chuckleheaded
- churlish
- clownish
- clueless
- cockeyed
- cold
- concentrated
- contempt
- contentious
- contentiousness
- contrariness
- contrary
- cool
- crabby
- crackbrained
- cracked
- crackers
- crackpot
- crankiness
- cranky
- crazed
- crazy
- cross
- cuckoo
- daffy
- daft
- dander
- delirious
- delirium
- delusional
- delusionary
- demented
- dense
- depressed
- deranged
- devoted
- dim
- dim-witted
- dippy
- disagreeable
- disapproving
- disordered
- disputatious
- disputatiousness
- distant
- distracted
- distraught
- disturbed
- doltish
- dopey
- dopy
- dorky
- dotty
- dudgeon
- dull
- dumb
- dunderheaded
- dyspeptic
- eccentric
- embitter
- embittered
- embitterment
- empoisonment
- empty-headed
- enamoured
- enflame
- enflamed
- enmity
- enrage
- enraged
- enthused
- envenom
- envy
- exasperate
- exasperated
- exasperation
- excessive
- exorbitant
- extravagant
- extreme
- fallacious
- fanatical
- farcical
- fatuous
- featherheaded
- feebleminded
- ferocious
- feverish
- fey
- fierce
- fit to be tied
- fixated
- flare
- flare-up
- foaming
- fond
- fool
- foolhardy
- foolish
- frantic
- frenetic
- frenzied
- fretful
- frigid
- fruity
- fuming
- furious
- furor
- fury
- fussy
- gaga
- get
- going crook
- gormless
- grouchy
- grudge
- grumpy
- half-baked
- half-witted
- harebrained
- haywire
- heat
- high-pressured
- hooked
- hopping
- hopping mad
- horn-mad
- hostility
- hot
- hot under the collar
- hot-headedness
- huff
- huffy
- hysteric
- hysterical
- icy
- idiotic
- idiotical
- ill-advised
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- illogical
- imbecile
- imbecilic
- immoderate
- impassioned
- impractical
- imprudent
- in a fume
- in a huff
- in a pet
- incense
- incensed
- indignant
- indignation
- inept
- infatuated
- inflame
- inflamed
- inflammable
- infuriate
- infuriated
- inimical
- inordinate
- insane
- intense
- intensive
- invalid
- irascibility
- irascible
- irascibleness
- irate
- irateness
- ire
- ireful
- irrational
- irritability
- irritable
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- irritated
- irritation
- jaundice
- jealousy
- jerky
- keen
- knuckleheaded
- kookie
- kooky
- lamebrain
- lamebrained
- laughable
- lavish
- livid
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- loco
- looney
- looney tunes
- loony
- loony tunes
- loopy
- ludicrous
- lunatic
- lunkheaded
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- madness
- malevolence
- malevolent
- malice
- maniac
- maniacal
- mental
- meshuga
- meshugah
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- meshugge
- miff
- mindless
- monomaniac
- monomaniacal
- mood
- moonstruck
- moronic
- nettle
- neurotic
- non compos mentis
- nonrational
- nonsensical
- notional
- nuclear
- nuts
- nutty
- oafish
- obsessed
- obsessive-compulsive
- obtuse
- odd
- oddball
- of unsound mind
- off
- offend
- opaque
- orneriness
- ornery
- out to lunch
- outburst
- outrage
- outraged
- overmuch
- overweening
- paranoiac
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- paranoid
- paranoidal
- passion
- passionate
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- pet
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- pixilated
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- rub the wrong way
- ruffle
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- screwy
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- sizzling
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- slow-witted
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- sociopathic
- soft
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- soreheaded
- spite
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- spleen
- steam up
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- vacuous
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- vexation
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- violent
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- vitriol
- vitriolic
- wacko
- wacky
- warmth
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- wigged-out
- wild
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- wrath
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- wroth
- wud
- zany
- zealous
rabid
- acrid
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- aggravated
- aggressive
- agitated
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- angry
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- antagonistic
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- apoplectic
- argumentative
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- ballistic
- bang-bang
- barbarous
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- bellicose
- belligerent
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- berserk
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- bilious
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- bitter
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- blue in the face
- boiling
- bristling
- bristly
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- burning
- cantankerous
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- cataclysmic
- cheesed off
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- concentrated
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- contrary
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- cool
- corybantic
- crabby
- cranky
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- cyclonic
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- going crook
- grouchy
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- high-pressured
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- hopping
- hopping mad
- horn-mad
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- huffy
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- ill-humored
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- in a fume
- in a huff
- in a pet
- incensed
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- nutty
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- put out
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- resentful
- revolutionary
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ultracold
- algid
- arctic
- bitter
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- bracing
- brisk
- chill
- chilled
- chilly
- cold
- coldish
- cool
- cooled
- coolish
- crisp
- cryogenic
- cutting
- freezing
- frigid
- frosted
- frosty
- frozen
- gelid
- glacial
- ice-cold
- iced
- icy
- invigorating
- keen
- nipping
- nippy
- numbing
- penetrating
- piercing
- polar
- refrigerated
- rigorous
- sharp
- shivery
- snappy
- subfreezing
- subzero
- unheated
- wintery
- wintry