cyclopean
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- Scrabble points
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- Words With Friends
- 22
- Letters
- 9
/ˈsaɪkləʊpi.ən/(UK)
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/ˈsaɪkləʊpi.ən/(UK) · /ˌsaɪkləˈpiː.ən/(UK)
Definition of cyclopean
5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Suggestive of a cyclops.
“Some of the descendants of this cyclopean ancestor left their burrows and started to swim.”
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adj
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Suggestive of a cyclops.
“Some of the descendants of this cyclopean ancestor left their burrows and started to swim.”
- Fitted together of huge irregular stones.
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(broadly)Massive in stature.
“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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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. […]”
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(alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of cyclopean.
“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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Etymology
From cyclops + -ean.
Words you can make from cyclopean
182 playable · top: CYCLONE (14 pts)
Best play cyclone 14 points7-letter words
2 words6-letter words
4 words5-letter words
37 words- COPAY 12 pts
- CYCLE 12 pts
- CYCLO 12 pts
- PACEY 12 pts
- COALY 10 pts
- CONEY 10 pts
- CYANO 10 pts
- LACEY 10 pts
- LYCEA 10 pts
- PEONY 10 pts
- PLOYE 10 pts
- PYLON 10 pts
- YAPON 10 pts
- CAPON 9 pts
- CECAL 9 pts
- COPAL 9 pts
- COPEN 9 pts
- PECAN 9 pts
- PLACE 9 pts
- PONCE 9 pts
- ONLAY 8 pts
- CANOE 7 pts
- CLEAN 7 pts
- CLONE 7 pts
- LANCE 7 pts
- NOPAL 7 pts
- OCEAN 7 pts
- PAEON 7 pts
- PALEO 7 pts
- PANEL 7 pts
- PELON 7 pts
- PENAL 7 pts
- PLANE 7 pts
- PLENA 7 pts
- PLEON 7 pts
- ALONE 5 pts
- ANOLE 5 pts
4-letter words
65 words- COPY 11 pts
- PACY 11 pts
- ACYL 9 pts
- CLAY 9 pts
- CLOY 9 pts
- COLY 9 pts
- CONY 9 pts
- CYAN 9 pts
- LACY 9 pts
- PALY 9 pts
- PLAY 9 pts
- PLOY 9 pts
- POLY 9 pts
- PONY 9 pts
- YELP 9 pts
- CAPE 8 pts
- CAPO 8 pts
- CECA 8 pts
- CLAP 8 pts
- CLOP 8 pts
- COCA 8 pts
- COPE 8 pts
- PACE 8 pts
- ONLY 7 pts
- YEAN 7 pts
- ACNE 6 pts
- ALEC 6 pts
- CALO 6 pts
- CANE 6 pts
- CLAN 6 pts
- CLON 6 pts
- COAL 6 pts
- COLA 6 pts
- COLE 6 pts
- CONE 6 pts
- LACE 6 pts
- LEAP 6 pts
- LOCA 6 pts
- LOPE 6 pts
- NAPE 6 pts
- NEAP 6 pts
- NOPE 6 pts
- ONCE 6 pts
- OPAL 6 pts
- OPEN 6 pts
- PALE 6 pts
- PANE 6 pts
- PEAL 6 pts
- PEAN 6 pts
- PEON 6 pts
- PLAN 6 pts
- PLEA 6 pts
- POLE 6 pts
- PONE 6 pts
- AEON 4 pts
- ALOE 4 pts
- ELAN 4 pts
- ENOL 4 pts
- LANE 4 pts
- LEAN 4 pts
- LENO 4 pts
- LOAN 4 pts
- LONE 4 pts
- NOEL 4 pts
- OLEA 4 pts
3-letter words
52 words- CAY 8 pts
- COY 8 pts
- PAY 8 pts
- PLY 8 pts
- PYA 8 pts
- PYE 8 pts
- YAP 8 pts
- YEP 8 pts
- CAP 7 pts
- CEP 7 pts
- COP 7 pts
- PAC 7 pts
- PEC 7 pts
- ANY 6 pts
- AYE 6 pts
- LAY 6 pts
- LEY 6 pts
- LYE 6 pts
- NAY 6 pts
- YEA 6 pts
- YEN 6 pts
- YON 6 pts
- ACE 5 pts
- ALP 5 pts
- APE 5 pts
- APO 5 pts
- CAL 5 pts
- CAN 5 pts
- CEL 5 pts
- COL 5 pts
- CON 5 pts
- ECO 5 pts
- LAC 5 pts
- LAP 5 pts
- LOC 5 pts
- LOP 5 pts
- NAP 5 pts
- OCA 5 pts
- OPA 5 pts
- OPE 5 pts
- PAL 5 pts
- PAN 5 pts
- PEA 5 pts
- PEN 5 pts
- POL 5 pts
- ALE 3 pts
- ANE 3 pts
- EON 3 pts
- LEA 3 pts
- NAE 3 pts
- OLE 3 pts
- ONE 3 pts
2-letter words
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