DEFINITIONnouna deposit of small white ice crystals formed on the ground or other surfaces when the temperature falls below freezing.• a period of cold weather when deposits of small white ice crystals form: when the hard frosts had set in.• a chilling or dispiriting quality, esp. one conveyed by a cold manner: there was a light frost of anger in Jack's tone.• [ in sing. ] informal, chiefly Brit.a failure.
verb [ with obj. ]cover (something) with or as if with small ice crystals; freeze: each windowpane was frosted along its edges.• [ no obj. ] become covered with small ice crystals: a mustache that frosts up when he's ice-climbing.• decorate (a cake, cupcake, or other baked item) with icing.• tint hair strands to change the color of isolated strands.• injure (a plant) by freezing weather.• informal anger or annoy: such discrimination frosted her no end.
DERIVATIVESfrostless adjective
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