Word Meanings - FRIGIDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.
Related words: (words related to FRIGIDLY)
- 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.