antarctic

Other forms of antarctic

plural

antarctics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about antarctic

What does antarctic mean?

antarctic means "the region around the south pole: Antarctica and surrounding waters". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in antarctic?

antarctic has 3 syllables: an-tarc-tic. The stress falls on "tarc". In IPA it is /ænˈtɑɹktɪk/.

What is another word for antarctic?

Close synonyms include Antarctic Zone, South Frigid Zone, south-polar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is antarctic a common word?

antarctic is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.