cyclopean

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cyclopean^¹

/ˈsaɪkləʊpi.ən/ UK
/ˌsaɪkləˈpiː.ən/ UK

adjective more cyclopean · most cyclopean · cyclopian · Cyclopean · Cyclopian

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.
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 gr
of an image 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. […]

Cyclopean^²

adjective more Cyclopean · most Cyclopean

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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adj suggestive of a cyclops

Español	ciclópeo, ciclópico
Français	cyclopéen

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@misc{cyclopean_2026,
  title = {cyclopean},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cyclopean},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}