ice-cold

ice-cold
/uys"kohld"/, adj.
1. cold as ice: Her feet were ice-cold.
2. without warmth of feeling or manner; unemotional; passionless: an ice-cold reception.
[bef. 1000; OE is-calde; unrecorded in ME]
Syn. 1. icelike, freezing, icy, frozen.

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