antarctic

Speech parts

1. antarctic - Noun

2. antarctic - Adjective

3. antarctic - Adjective Satellite

4. Antarctic - Proper noun

Meaning

Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23¡ 28/. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Antarctic Zone South Frigid Zone south-polar south east southern west southeast siberian arctic occidental northern southerner south pole ocean
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Antonyms

north pole equatorial blazing hot warm burning
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Phrases with the word

the Antarctic antarctic fur seal antarctic region antarctic giant petrel antarctic desert less antarctic

Examples

Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic. Ranulph Fiennes

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair. John F. Kennedy

Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl? Clive Cussler

BEG TO INFORM YOU FRAM PROCEEDING ANTARCTIC - AMUNDSEN. Roald Amundsen

They are extraordinarily like children, these little people of the Antarctic world, either like children, or like old men, full of their own importance and late for dinner, in their black tail-coats and white shirt-fronts - and rather portly withal. Apsley Cherry-Garrard

I'm quite certain that we'll have such [lunar] bases in our lifetime, somewhat like the Antarctic stations and similar scientific outposts, continually manned. Neil Armstrong

Close letter words and terms

antarchistic antarchistical Antarctalian Antarctic beech antarctic bird Antarctic Circle