subglacial en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /sʌbˈɡleɪ.ʃɪ.əl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌsʌbˈɡleɪ.ʃ(ə)l/ (General-American)
- /sʌbˈɡleɪ.ʃl̩/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
PIE word *upó From sub- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + glacial (“of or relating to glaciers; cold and icy; (figurative) very slow”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice.
These streams continue to flow in winter as well as in summer, although in less quantity; […] It is also this melting beneath the ice (subglacial, suppose we call it) which loosens the ice from the ground, and occasions, or rather permits, the perpetual downward movement, with which "The glacier's cold and restless mass / Moves onward day by day."
1836 September 2, J. R., “Art. VI. Observations on the Causes which Occasion the Variation of Temperature between Spring and River Water.”, in J[ohn] C[laudius] Loudon, editor, The Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, volume IX, number 66, London: […] [Andrew Spottiswoode] for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, […], published October 1836, →OCLC, page 534:
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(excessive, informal, not-comparable) Moving at a rate allegedly slower than a glacier; extremely slow.
Securing political approval for even modest changes to railway organisation and structure has been of sub-glacial speed and complexity since 2004, when Government abolished the Strategic Rail Authority and put itself in charge.
2020 September 23, Nigel Harris, “Comment: We MUST Seize the Moment”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
Antonyms
rapid · feverish · greased lightning · fast · hasty · fleet · cursory · express · zippy · expeditious · hectical · hectic · quicksome · post haste · spit-spot · speedful · nimble · immediate · lightning fast · quick · precipitant · quick as a flash · supraglacial · fleeting · speedy · swift · hyperactive · tripsome
Deriveds
subglacial rill · subglacial duct · subglacial stream · subglacial volcano · subglacial lake · subglacially
Synonyms
slow as molasses in January · creeping · low-speed · dreich · lethargic · torpid · slow-moving · heavy-footed · ponderous · glacial · labored · languid · lumbering · glacial · plodding · draggy · testudineous · tedious · inert · subglacial · slack · crawling · turtlesque · pokey · turtleish · sullen · slow as Christmas · unspeedy · sluggish · slothlike · tardigrade · leaden · slow as a snail · inching · slowfooted · gastropodous · languorous · lead-footed · slow · tardy · slow as molasses · steady · stately
Translations (41)
eu glaziarpeko (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · tr buzulaltı (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · hi हिमानीगत (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · mk субглацијално (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · la subglacialis (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · bg подледниковото (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · pl podlodowcowe (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · es subglacial (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · cmn 冰下 (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · fi subglasiaalinen (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · eo subglacia (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · ko 빙저 (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · pt subglacial (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · fi jäävuorta hitaampi (moving at a rate allegedly slower than a glacier — see also slow) · fi jäänalainen (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · it subglaciale (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · nn subglasial (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · pl subglacjalne (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · id subglasial (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · lv zemledus (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · lv subglaciālais (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · ca subglacial (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · ru подлёдный (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · ja 氷底 (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · es subglaciar (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · da isdækket (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · uk підльодовикове (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · ru подледнико́вый (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · mk подледничко (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · tl subglasyal (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · ast subglacial (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · de subglazial (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · oc subglaciala (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · da subglacial (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · sv subglacial (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · mk подглечероско (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · fi jäätikön alainen (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · nl subglaciale (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · cs subglaciální (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · ka ყინულქვეშა (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice) · fr subglaciaire (formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice)