arctically

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Arctic +‎ -ally

Adverb[edit]

arctically (comparative more arctically, superlative most arctically)

  1. In an Arctic manner.
    • 1889, Edgar Fawcett, The Evil that Men Do, page 86:
      Then, across a draughty hall, she made her way to the front entrance and passed by another stairway into the street. It was still arctically cold.
    • 1951, Herman Wouk, chapter 1, in The Caine Mutiny, New York: Little, Brown, published 2013:
      He was not far, physically, from Manhasset, no further than he had been in his Broadway haunts. But he felt arctically remote.