different between cyclopean vs imposing

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sa?kl??pi.?n/

Adjective

cyclopean (comparative more cyclopean, superlative most cyclopean)

1. Suggestive of a cyclops.
2. (masonry) Fitted together of huge irregular stones.
3. 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.

4. (image) Created by combining two images
   • 2001, Sharan Strange, "Looking," in Ash, Boston: Beacon Press, p. 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. […]

Alternative forms

• Cyclopean
• cyclopian

Translations

Anagrams

• clean copy

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?po?z??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?p??z??/
• Rhymes: -??z??
• Hyphenation: im?pos?ing

Verb

imposing

1. present participle of impose

Adjective

imposing (comparative more imposing, superlative most imposing)

1. Magnificent and impressive because of appearance, size, stateliness or dignity.

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