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cyclopean

adj · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • UK: /ˈsaɪkləʊpi.ən/
  • UK: /ˌsaɪkləˈpiː.ən/
  • CMU ARPABET: S AY2 K L AH0 P IY1 AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Suggestive of a cyclops.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences

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2

adj

Meaning 2

Fitted together of huge irregular stones.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: business, construction, manufacturing, masonry

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3

adj

Meaning 3

Massive in stature.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

Examples

  • 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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4

adj

Meaning 4

Created by combining two images.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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5

adj

Meaning 5

Alternative letter-case form of cyclopean.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of

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6

adjective

Meaning 6

of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Cyclopean eye

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History

Etymology

From cyclops + -ean.

Across languages

Translations

8 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: ciclopi — suggestive of a cyclops
  • Esperanto: ciklopa — suggestive of a cyclops
  • French: cyclopéen — suggestive of a cyclops
  • Spanish: ciclópeo — suggestive of a cyclops
  • Spanish: ciclópico — suggestive of a cyclops
  • Catalan: ciclopi — massive in stature
  • Polish: olbrzymi — massive in stature
  • Turkish: endamlı — massive in stature