gelidly

English

Etymology

From gelid +‎ -ly.

Adverb

gelidly (not comparable)

1. In a gelid manner; coldly, icily.
   • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 17, in Billy Budd‎^[1], London: Constable & Co.:

     Those lights of human intelligence losing human expression, gelidly protruding like the alien eyes of certain uncatalogued creatures of the deep.

   • 1960, Louis W. Koenig, The Invisible Presidency‎^[2], Rinehart, page 15:

     The United States Supreme Court, however, was not the colonial judiciary. It gelidly declined to co-operate with Washington.

Related terms

• gelidity / gelidness