different between wintry vs antarctic

English

Alternative forms

• wintery

Etymology

From Old English wintrig. Also constructed from winter +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?nt(?)??/
• (General American) enPR: w?n?t(?-)r?, IPA^(key): /?w?nt(?)?i/, [?w???(?)?i]
• Rhymes: -?nt?i
• Hyphenation: win?try

Adjective

wintry (comparative wintrier, superlative wintriest)

1. Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.

   wintry weather

2. Of precipitation, containing sleet or snow.

   It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.

3. Aged, white-haired.
4. Chilling, cheerless.
   • 1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet, The Bounder's Folly

     He reached the old ruins at last, dim masses of moss-grown masonry in the glimmer of the wintry starlight.

   a wintry remark

Synonyms

• (suggestive or characteristic of winter): brumal, hibernal, hiemal

Derived terms

Translations

References

• wintry at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • IPA^(key): /æn?t??kt?k/

Adjective

antarctic (comparative more antarctic, superlative most antarctic)

1. Alternative spelling of Antarctic

Romanian

Etymology

From French antarctique, from Latin antarcticus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (antarktikós).

Adjective

antarctic m or n (feminine singular antarctic?, masculine plural antarctici, feminine and neuter plural antarctice)

1. Antarctic

Derived terms

• Oceanul Antarctic m (“Southern Ocean”)