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.
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Cyclopean
Synonyms for "cyclopean" (57 found)
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Related words (28)
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8 translations across 6 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- ciclopi adj (suggestive of a cyclops)
- ciclopi adj (massive in stature)
Esperanto
1 entries- ciklopa adj (suggestive of a cyclops)
French
1 entries- cyclopéen adj (suggestive of a cyclops)
Polish
1 entries- olbrzymi adj (massive in stature)
Spanish
2 entries- ciclópeo adj (suggestive of a cyclops)
- ciclópico adj (suggestive of a cyclops)
Turkish
1 entries- endamlı adj (massive in stature)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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.
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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. […]
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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, […]
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