different between voluminous vs cyclopean

English

Etymology

From Late Latin voluminosus, from volumen, from volv? (“roll, turn about”) +? -men (noun-forming suffix). Related to volume.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v??l(j)u?.m?.n?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /v??lu.m?.n?s/

Adjective

voluminous (comparative more voluminous, superlative most voluminous)

1. Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
2. Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
3. Of great volume, or bulk; large.
4. Having written much, or produced many volumes

   Synonyms: copious, diffuse

   a voluminous writer

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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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