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Wintry vs Polar - What's the difference?

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Wintry is a related term of polar.


As an adjective wintry

is suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.

As a noun polar is

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wintry

English

Alternative forms

* wintery

Adjective

(er)
  • suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
  • aged, white(-haired etc.)
  • chilling, cheerless

    • Synonyms

    * (suggestive or characteristic of winter) brumal, hibernal, hiemal

    Derived terms

    * unwintry * wintrify * wintrily * wintriness * wintry mix * wintry shower

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    polar

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole)
  • of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles
  • (chemistry) having a dipole; ionic
  • (mathematics) of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle
  • (linguistics, of a question) Having but two possible answers, yes'' and ''no .

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