Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cyclopean

/ˈsaɪkləʊpi.ən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.79 in modern English

Syllables: cy-clo-pean
IPA: /ˈsaɪkləʊpi.ən/

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Suggestive of a cyclops.

adj

Fitted together of huge irregular stones.

adj

Massive in stature.

adj

Created by combining two images.

adj

Alternative letter-case form of cyclopean.

Example Sentences

"Some of the descendants of this cyclopean ancestor left their burrows and started to swim."
"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."
"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. […]"
"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, […]"

Etymology

From cyclops + -ean.

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈsaɪkləʊpi.ən/

Inflected Forms

more cyclopean (comparative) most cyclopean (superlative) cyclopian (alternative)

Derived Forms

hypercyclopean

Phrases

Cyclopean architecture cyclopean stairs

Rhymes With

european korean ian indo-european asean sheehan boolean aegean jian meehan eritrean eon

Questions

How do you pronounce cyclopean?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsaɪkləʊpi.ən/.
What does cyclopean mean?: Suggestive of a cyclops.
Where does cyclopean come from?: From cyclops + -ean.

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