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cyclopean

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

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inexhaustible

English

Etymology

From in- +? exhaustible.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n???z??st?bl?/
  • Hyphenation: in?ex?haus?ti?ble

Adjective

inexhaustible (not comparable)

  1. Impossible to exhaust; unlimited.
    Antonym: exhaustible

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