polar

Adjective

• being of crucial importance
  • a pivotal event
    
  • Its pivotal location has also exposed it to periodic invasions- Henry Kissinger
    
  • the polar events of this study
    
  • a polar principal
    

• extremely cold
  • an arctic climate
    
  • a frigid day
    
  • gelid waters of the North Atlantic
    
  • glacial winds
    
  • icy hands
    
  • polar weather
    

• of or existing at or near a geographical pole or within the Arctic or Antarctic Circles
  • polar regions
    

• located at or near or coming from the earth's poles
  • polar diameter
    
  • polar zone
    
  • a polar air mass
    
  • Antarctica is the only polar continent
    

• characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
  • in diametric contradiction to his claims
    
  • diametrical (or opposite) points of view
    
  • opposite meanings
    
  • extreme and indefensible polar positions
    

• having a pair of equal and opposite charges

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  pivotal , arctic , frigid , gelid , glacial , icy , diametric , diametrical , opposite