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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Frosty \Frost"y\, adjective [Cf. AS. fyrstig.]
1. Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.
2. Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.
3. Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage. --Johnson.
4. Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
frosty
adjective
1: devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile" [syn: {frigid}, {frozen}, {glacial}, {icy}, {wintry}]
2: covered with frost; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost"-Wm.Faulkner [syn: {rimed}, {rimy}]
3: pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"; ('parky' is a British term) [syn: {crisp}, {nipping}, {nippy}, {snappy}, {parky}] [also: {frostiest}, {frostier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
145 Moby Thesaurus words for "frosty": Olympian, affectless, aloof, anesthetized, arctic, argent, argentine, autistic, backward, bashful, blank, blunt, canescent, catatonic, chalky, chill, chilled, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, constrained, cool, cretaceous, detached, disaccordant, discreet, dispassionate, distant, drugged, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, exclusive, expressionless, fleecy-white, forbidding, freezing, frigid, frost-beaded, frost-chequered, frost-covered, frost-fettered, frost-rent, frostbound, frosted, frostlike, frosty-faced, frozen, gelid, glacial, grizzled, grizzly, guarded, heartless, hoar, hoar-frosted, hoary, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, incompatible, inexcitable, inhospitable, inimical, insusceptible, introverted, lactescent, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, milky, modest, nippy, niveous, nonemotional, objective, obtuse, offish, out of touch, passionless, platinum, pure white, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, rime-frosted, rimed, seclusive, self-absorbed, semidiaphanous, semiopaque, semipellucid, semitransparent, shivery, shrinking, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish, strained, subdued, suppressed, swan-white, tense, unaffable, unaffectionate, unamiable, unamicable, unapproachable, uncongenial, uncordial, undemonstrative, unemotional, unexpansive, unfeeling, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsociable, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, white, white as snow, withdrawn
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