Definitions for Glacial

Glacial gla·cial

Spelling: [gley-shuh l]
IPA: /ˈgleɪ ʃəl/

Glacial is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in Glacial (aacgill).

Definitions for Glacial

adjective

  1. of or relating to glaciers or ice sheets.
  2. resulting from or associated with the action of ice or glaciers:
  3. characterized by the presence of ice in extensive masses or glaciers.
  4. bitterly cold; icy:
  5. happening or moving extremely slowly:
  6. icily unsympathetic or immovable:
  7. Chemistry. of, relating to, or tending to develop into icelike crystals:

Origin of Glacial

1650-60; Latin glaciālis icy, equivalent to glaci(ēs) ice + -ālis -al1

Examples for Glacial

"I had no idea you were with Miss Gray, Robin," she heard the lady say in glacial accents.

The often glacial pace of change can prove particularly frustrating to former clerks who return as justices.

Even with that, his solitude was glacial, and reacted on his character.

“Americans will never drive a small car,” said the man from GM with glacial confidence.

Many thousands of years ago, glacial floods swept through the area and carved out the sloping sides of the current grounds.

For a church that moves at a glacial pace, the murmurings of Bishops like Tobin are lightning fast and boldly subversive.

Folks are taking cold showers already, and the weather soon will be glacial.

He rose as Roma entered, and received her with his great but glacial politeness.

If the glacial period were uniformity, what was catastrophe?

Perhaps the glacial period which followed was too cold for them.

Word Value for Glacial
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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