cyclopean
See also: Cyclopean
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[edit]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.
- 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.
- 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,
- (of an image) Created by combining two images.
- 2001, Sharan Strange, “Looking”, in Ash, Boston: Beacon Press, page 50:
- 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. […]