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polar

adjective as in cold

adjective as in opposite, opposed

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The weather, the conditions, you can imagine it—a polar bear in a desert, with a swimming pool 50 centimetres deep.

Shaked spoke in these generalities initially—referring to two sets of people, two polar opposites on a pendulum.

Sykes suspects that the hairs come from either an unrecognized bear species, or an unknown hybrid of polar bear and brown bear.

She would leave every day of shooting during the polar vortex just grinning from ear-to-ear.

The world of the military is to the writer admittedly “the polar opposite” of his own.

Long before that, however, the sun had come back to gladden the Polar regions, and break up the reign of ancient night.

The same would be the case if the polar axis of one sphere stood precisely at right angles to that of the other.

Thus the wide habitability of the earth is an effect arising from the inclination of its polar axis.

Let us conceive a particle of air situated immediately over the earth's polar axis.

On the equatorial side this air is moving more rapidly than it is on the polar side.

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On this page you'll find 63 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to polar, such as: freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, arctic, and extreme.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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