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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-189/
- Published: 2025-02-08T17:15:46.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-08T17:15:45.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

gelid (adjective): 

: extremely cold : icy

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gelid?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Gelid entered English late in the 16th century from the Latin adjective gelidus, which ultimately comes from the noun gelu, meaning “frost” or “cold.” (The noun gelatin, which can refer to an edible jelly that undergoes a cooling process as part of its formation, comes from the related Latin word, gelare, meaning “to freeze.”) Gelid is used to describe anything of extremely cold temperature (as in “the gelid waters of the Arctic Ocean”), but the word can also be used figuratively to describe a person with a cold demeanor (as in “the prizefighter’s gelid stare”).

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