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frigidly

adverb

frigidly is an adverb meaning “In a frigid manner; coldly; icily” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-I-G-I-D-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does frigidly mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    In a frigid manner; coldly; icily.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce frigidly?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-frigidly.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of frigidly

  • more frigidly comparative
  • most frigidly superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is frigidly?

Frigidly appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does frigidly come from?

From frigid + -ly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).