The difference between Freezing and Ice-cold

When used as adjectives, freezing means suffering or causing frost, whereas ice-cold means as cold as ice.


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 Ice-cold

  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. Ice-cold as an adjective:

    As cold as ice; very cold.

  2. Ice-cold as an adjective:

    Without emotion; distant.

    Examples:

    "The way she stared him down and walked away...everyone in the room could tell she was [[ice-cold]]."

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