Cyclopean
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈsaɪkləʊpi.ən/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Cyclopean is an adjective meaning (mythology) Suggestive of a cyclops.
Meaning
(mythology) Suggestive of a cyclops.
More Meanings
- (masonry) Fitted together of huge irregular stones.
- (by extension) Massive in stature.
- (of an image) Created by combining two images.
Example Sentences
Some of the descendants of this cyclopean ancestor left their burrows and started to swim.
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. […]
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.
Word Forms
- cyclopian
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cyclopiform, cycloptic, polyphemic, wheel-eyed, hypercyclopean, cycloid.
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