different between cyclopean vs whopping

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

Etymology

whop (verb) +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?(h)w?p??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?(h)w?p??/
• Rhymes: -?p??
• Hyphenation: whop?ping

Adjective

whopping (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Exceptionally great or large.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:gigantic

Translations

Adverb

whopping (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Exceedingly, extremely, very.

Synonyms

• awfully
• terribly

Verb

whopping

1. present participle of whop.

Noun

whopping (plural whoppings)

1. A beating.

Synonyms

• thrashing
• walloping
• whupping (colloquial)

Further reading

• “whopping” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, retrieved 24 July 2017.