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adjective relating to or derived from a glacier
adjective devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
adjective extremely cold
originBorrowed 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0