cyclopean

/sahy-kluh-pee-uhn, sahy-klop-ee-uhn/US // ˌsaɪ kləˈpi ən, saɪˈklɒp i ən //UK // (ˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːən, saɪˈkləʊpɪən) //

环形的,环状的,环形的人,环状的人

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : of or characteristic of the Cyclops.
- : gigantic; vast.
- : Architecture, Building Trades. formed with or containing large, undressed stones fitted closely together without the use of mortar: a cyclopean wall.

adj.giant

Synonyms

At the extremity of the cavern, which was oblong, rose a Cyclopean archivolte, singularly exact in form.
The Cyclopean doors that we hung, with sliding bolts fit to be “the mast of some great admiral”!
Most of the Mycenaean walls, on the other hand, are of "Cyclopean" style, in large irregular blocks.
His speeches were Cyclopean cries, at the sight of the truth breaking, like the sun, on his mind.
The masonry is of different character from that cyclopean piling of boulders which was all the earlier men had known of building.