Usually means: Extremely slow, like a glacier.
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  1. glacial: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. glacial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glacial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glacial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glacial: Vocabulary.com
  6. glacial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. glacial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. glacial: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. glacial: Dictionary.com
  10. glacial: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Glacial (short story), Glacial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Glacial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. glacial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. glacial: Rhymezone
  15. Glacial, glacial(e) (-als, -aux): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. glacial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. glacial: Free Dictionary
  18. glacial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. glacial: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. Glacial, glacial: Wordnik
  21. glacial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  22. Glacial, glacial: Wiktionary

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  1. glacial: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glacial: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See glacially as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of, or relating to glaciers.
adjective:  (figuratively) Very slow.
adjective:  Cold and icy.
adjective:  Having the appearance of ice.
adjective:  (figuratively) Cool and unfriendly.
noun:  A glacial period (colloquially known as an ice age).
noun:  (geology) Of the Pleistocene period dominated by the presence of glaciers.

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