cyclopean

a. 独眼巨人的, 巨大的, 巨石堆积的

发音

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

词形变化

more cyclopean 比较级 most cyclopean 最高级

别名

Cyclopean cyclopian

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Suggestive of a cyclops.

    宗教 神话 哲学
  2. 2.

    Fitted together of huge irregular stones.

    商务 建筑 工程
  3. 3.

    Massive in stature.

    引申义

    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. 4.

    Created by combining two images.

相关短语

Cyclopean architecture cyclopean stairs

词源

From cyclops + -ean.

来源：wiktionary