Gelid

gelid
    adj 1: extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day";
           "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds";
           "icy hands"; "polar weather" [syn: {arctic}, {frigid},
           {gelid}, {glacial}, {icy}, {polar}]
    

Gelid \Gel"id\ (j[e^]l"[i^]d), a. [L. gelidus, fr. gelu frost,
   cold. See {Cold}, and cf. {Congeal}, {Gelatin}, {Jelly}.]
   Cold; very cold; frozen. "Gelid founts." --Thompson.
   [1913 Webster]
    

65 Moby Thesaurus words for "gelid":
      Siberian, algid, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold,
      blast-frozen, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, chill, chilly, cold,
      cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble,
      congealed, cool, crisp, cutting, freezing, freezing cold, frigid,
      frostbitten, frostnipped, frosty, frozen, frozen solid, glacial,
      hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice, ice-cold, ice-encrusted,
      icelike, icy, icy-cold, inclement, keen, nipping, nippy, numbing,
      penetrating, piercing, pinching, quick-frozen, raw, rigorous,
      severe, sharp, sharp-frozen, sleety, slushy, snappy, stone-cold,
      subzero, supercooled, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry