cyclopean

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
22
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/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

  1. Suggestive of a cyclops.
    “Some of the descendants of this cyclopean ancestor left their burrows and started to swim.”
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adj

  1. Suggestive of a cyclops.
    “Some of the descendants of this cyclopean ancestor left their burrows and started to swim.”
  2. Fitted together of huge irregular stones.
  3. (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.”
  4. 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. […]”
  5. (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, […]”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From cyclops + -ean.

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