FROSTILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frostily mean? 

• FROSTILY (adverb)
  The adverb FROSTILY has 1 sense:

1. without warmth or enthusiasm

  Familiarity information: FROSTILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FROSTILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without warmth or enthusiasm

Synonyms:

frigidly; frostily

Context example:

'Come in if you have to,' he said frostily

Pertainym:

frosty (devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain)

 Context examples 

When I undrew the curtains and looked out of bed, I saw him, in an equable temperature of respectability, unaffected by the east wind of January, and not even breathing frostily, standing my boots right and left in the first dancing position, and blowing specks of dust off my coat as he laid it down like a baby.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)