Definitions
Very cold, slow, or resembling ice in character.
Word origin
Borrowed from French glacial, from Latin glaciālis, from glaciēs (“ice”). The sense "slow" refers to the speed of actual glaciers, typically around 1 meter per day.
Used in a sentence
“We examined the glacial deposits.”
“Wang Shijin is a glacier expert and director of the Yulong Snow Mountain Glacial and Environmental Observation Research Station.”
“Users can see how a glacier at the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania retreated between December 1986 and 2020, as well as glacial melt in Sermersooq, Greenland, between December 2000 and 2020.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Like ice”7 letters
02“Icy cold”7 letters
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