algid
/ˈæl.d͡ʒɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Cold, chilly; used of low body temperature, especially in connection with certain diseases such as malaria and cholera.
Example Sentences
- "algid malaria"
- "1875 March 15, J. C. Morgan, More on Typho-Malarial Fever, United States Medical Investigator, New Series, Volume 1, No. 6, page 261, […] with cold sweat, blueness, stupidity, no heat, no sort of reaction or remission, intense venous congestion in divers organs, getting steadily worse and worse, more and more algid, wet, and stupid, with death in thirty-six hours."
- "The coldest, most algid moments of this savage industrialization, commanded by the Robber Barons (Josephson 1962), were featured in a recent book on the expansionary experience of the railroads, which by 1900, had already built 193,000 miles of track:"
- "Having such a large amount of skin touching the glass (her feet and her rear) while it grew more and more algid was getting to be quite arrestive."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin algeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin algidusbor. English algid Borrowed from Latin algidus (“cold”).
Inflected Forms
more algid (comparative)
most algid (superlative)