arctic

1. (astronomy, now only in compounds) Pertaining to the celestial north pole, or to the pole star.in-compoundsnot-comparable

2. (geography) Pertaining to the northern polar region of the planet, characterised by extreme cold and an icy landscape.Examples: "What neede the artick people loue star-light, To whom the sunne shines both by day and night."; "[…] on th’ other side Incenc’t with indignation Satan stood Unterrifi’d, and like a Comet burn’d, That fires the length of Ophiucus huge In th’ Artick Sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes Pestilence and Warr."; "See FREEDOM smiling thro’ the realms of frost, And glow on Labradore’s inclement coast, Tho’ darkness sheds deep night thro’ half the year, And snow invests the clime,—that clime is dear, For there fair LIBERTY resides, and there At large the native breasts the searching air, Where blows the arctic tempests icy gale, And famine seizes on the spermy whale,"not-comparable