cyclopian

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

cyclops +‎ -ian

Adjective[edit]

cyclopian (comparative more cyclopian, superlative most cyclopian)

  1. Alternative form of cyclopean
    • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter VIII, [1]
      They soon found that the entire place was composed of the finest rock crystals, or rather it appeared to have been cut out of one gigantic crystal by some cyclopian lapidary.