cyclopean

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈsaɪkləʊpi.ən/|/ˌsaɪkləˈpiː.ən/   

英文释义

形容词 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. Massive in stature. broadly
    — 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. […]

词形变化

more cyclopean comparative most cyclopean superlative Cyclopean alternative cyclopian alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
Cyclopean architecture cyclopean stairs hypercyclopean

词源

Etymology tree
English cyclops
English -ean
English cyclopean
From cyclops + -ean.
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