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Word Meanings - FRIGIDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.

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  • AFFECTION
    Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
  • WITHOUT-DOOR
    Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
  • AFFECTIONED
    1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
  • WITHOUTFORTH
    Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
  • AFFECTIONATED
    Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
  • AFFECTIONATE
    1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
  • FRIGIDARIUM
    The cooling room of the Roman thermæ, furnished with a cold bath.
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • AFFECTIONAL
    Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.
  • AFFECTIONATENESS
    The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
  • WITHOUTEN
    Without. Chaucer.
  • FRIGIDITY
    1. The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth. Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air. Sir T. Browne. 2. Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness
  • FRIGIDNESS
    The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.
  • COLDLY
    In a cold manner; without warmth, animation, or feeling; with indifference; calmly. Withdraw unto some private place, And reason coldly of your grievances. Shak.
  • AFFECTIONATELY
    With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.
  • DULLY
    In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit. Supinely calm and dully innocent. G. Lyttelton.
  • FRIGIDLY
    In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.
  • MANNERLINESS
    The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
  • MANNERED
    1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • MISAFFECTION
    An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall.
  • INFRIGIDATE
    To chill; to make cold; to cool. Boyle.
  • DISAFFECTIONATE
    Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. Blount.
  • OVERMANNER
    In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
  • ILL-MANNERED
    Impolite; rude.

 

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