Cyclopean

adj

adj ·4 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

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

Synonyms

All synonyms
abysmalantaeanastronomicastronomicalatlanteanbig

Example

More examples

"The Cyclops lifted his cyclopean body out of his cyclopean bed and set about to the cyclopean task of cleaning up the entirety of his cyclopean lair."

Etymology

From cyclops + -ean.

Related phrases

Cyclopean architecturecyclopean stairs

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