Pronounced: stygian, adj
Notes: Again a word I’ve run across, but didn’t properly know the definition, but I do have a related funny short tale.
Yesterday’s word
The word gelid means “extremely cold; icy”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
I was not aware that this word meant extremely cold; I though it meant “on the colder side”. In fact, it means anything with an extremely cold temperature. It can be used figuratively to mean a person with a “cold” demeanor. Our word came from the Latin word gelidus, which traces back to the noun gelu (frost; cold).
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