different between gigantic vs cyclopean

English

Alternative forms

• gigantick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (gigantikós), ultimately from ????? (gígas, “giant”). According to the Poly-Olbion project coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?-g?n't?k, IPA^(key): /d?a???ænt?k/
• Rhymes: -ænt?k

Adjective

gigantic (comparative more gigantic, superlative most gigantic)

1. Very large.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 1 p. 1[1]:

     Thou Genius of the place (this most renowned Ile)

     Which livedst long before the All-earth-drowning Flood,

     Whilst yet the world did swarme with her Gigantick brood;

2. In the manner of a giant.

Synonyms

• gigantesque
• See also Thesaurus:gigantic

Derived terms

• gigantism

Related terms

• giant

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

gigant +? -ic

Adjective

gigantic m or n (feminine singular gigantic?, masculine plural gigantici, feminine and neuter plural gigantice)

1. giant

Declension

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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