The difference between Freezing and Frigorific

When used as adjectives, freezing means suffering or causing frost, whereas frigorific means causing to cool or chill.


Freezing is also noun with the meaning: the change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.

check bellow for the other definitions of Freezing and Frigorific

  1. Freezing as an adjective (literally):

    Suffering or causing frost

  2. Freezing as an adjective (by extension, chiefly, hyperbole):

    Very cold

  1. Freezing as a noun (uncountable, physics, chemistry):

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

  2. Freezing as a noun (countable, medicine):

    The action of numbing with anesthetics.

  1. Freezing as a verb:

  1. Frigorific as an adjective:

    causing to cool or chill

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