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1
having a low or subnormal temperature
- the Titanic passengers could not long survive the gelid waters of the North Atlantic
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2
lacking in friendliness or warmth of feeling
- the judge listened with the gelid detachment of someone who had heard it all before
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The first known use of gelid was in 1599
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