Frigid vs. Freezing — What's the Difference?

Extremely cold.

Freezing is a phase transition where a liquid turns into a solid when its temperature is lowered below its freezing point. In accordance with the internationally established definition, freezing means the solidification phase change of a liquid or the liquid content of a substance, usually due to cooling.

Lacking warmth of feeling.

To pass from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.

Stiff and formal in manner

To acquire a surface or coat of ice from cold

Showing little or no enthusiasm

To become clogged or jammed because of the formation of ice

Often Offensive Lacking sexual desire or unwilling to engage in sexual activity. Used especially of women.

To be at that degree of temperature at which ice forms

Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.

To be killed or harmed by cold or frost

Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive.

To be or feel uncomfortably cold

(colloquial) Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman.

To become fixed, stuck, or attached by or as if by frost

Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.

To stop functioning properly, usually temporarily

Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.

To become motionless or immobile, as from surprise or attentiveness

Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.

To become unable to act or speak, as from fear

Sexually unresponsive;

To become rigid and inflexible; solidify

Extremely cold;

To convert into ice.

Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain;

To cause ice to form upon.

To cause to congeal or stiffen from extreme cold

To preserve (foods, for example) by subjecting to freezing temperatures.

To damage, kill, or make inoperative by cold or by the formation of ice.

To make very cold; chill.

To immobilize, as with fear or shock.

To chill with an icy or formal manner

To stop the motion or progress of

To fix (prices or wages, for example) at a given or current level.

To prohibit further manufacture or use of.

To prevent or restrict the exchange, withdrawal, liquidation, or granting of by governmental action

To anesthetize by chilling.

(Sports) To keep possession of (a ball or puck) so as to deny an opponent the opportunity to score.

The act of freezing.

The state of being frozen.

A spell of cold weather; a frost.

A restriction that forbids a quantity from rising above a given or current level

(literally) Suffering or causing frost

Very cold

Zero °C, the freezing point of water.

The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.

The action of numbing with anesthetics.

Present participle of freeze

Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.

The withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid