-|anik, -nēk adjective
Etymology: French océanique, from Middle French oceanique, from ocean, occean ocean + -ique -ic
1.
a. : of, relating to, occurring in, living in, or frequenting the ocean
oceanic currents
oceanic depths
oceanic rock
oceanic birds
b. : affected by or produced by the ocean
a wet, windy, oceanic climate — C.D.Forde
c. : resembling the ocean especially in immensity of size or extent
October gives the grain belt an oceanic vastness of gold — W.W.Haines
the oceanic violence of his rage against the miseries of man's life — Walter McElroy
2. usually capitalized : oceanian
3. : of, relating to, constituting, or living in the open sea as distinguished from littoral or neritic regions
oceanic waters
oceanic life
— compare abyssal , photic
4. usually capitalized : relating to, belonging to, or characterizing the Austronesian family of languages or the Melanesian and Polynesian divisions of that family