cyclopean

== English == === Alternative forms === Cyclopean cyclopian === Etymology === From cyclops + -ean. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsaɪkləʊpi.ən/ (UK) IPA(key): /ˌsaɪkləˈpiː.ən/ === Adjective === cyclopean (comparative more cyclopean, superlative most cyclopean) (mythology) Suggestive of a cyclops. (masonry) Fitted together of huge irregular stones. (by extension) 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 grass, each stone and each man was the Universe. See also quotation under cyclopian. (of an image) Created by combining two images. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === clean copy