Refine this word faster

Stronger alternatives Opposite tone Use in context Cross-language nuance

Cyclopean

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Suggestive of a cyclops.
  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of cyclopean. alt-of

    "Our quiuering Lances ſhaking in the aire, And bullets like Ioues dreadfull Thunderbolts, Enrolde in flames and fiery ſmoldering miſtes, Shall threat the Gods more than Cyclopian warres, […]"

  3. 3
    Fitted together of huge irregular stones.
  4. 4
    Massive in stature. broadly

    "2006, Fernando Pessoa, "Salutation to Walt Whitman," in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, edited and translated by Richard Zenith, Penguin, pp. 198-9, You were cyclopean and muscular, not pretty, / Yet your attitude toward the world was feminine, / And for you each leaf of grass, each stone and each man was the Universe. See also quotation under cyclopian."

  5. 5
    Created by combining two images.

    "When he wrote the word, / the o's were joined / like eyeglass lenses without / a bridge. Cross-eyed, hypnotic, / they threatened to merge, / become Cyclopean. […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops wordnet

Etymology

From cyclops + -ean.

See also for "cyclopean"

Synonyms Antonyms Rhymes Sentences Translate Word Type Pronunciation Word Forms

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciation

Mini challenge

Unscramble this word: cyclopean