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Circaean

Circaean is the alternative form of Circean.

Meaning of Circean

Adjective

Circean (comparative more Circean, superlative most Circean)

  1. Pertaining to Circe, the Greek goddess, who first charmed her victims and then changed them into animals; hence, alluring but dangerous or degrading.
    • Is it then surprizing […] that an empty mind should be employed only to vary the pleasures, which emasculated her circean court?1794, Mary Wollstonecraft, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution, II.2

Forms of Circaean

comparativemore Circaean
superlativemost Circaean

Questions about Circaean

What is Circaean the alternative form of?
Circaean is the alternative form of Circean.

Words near Circaean in the dictionary

  1. circadian dysrhythmia
  2. circadian rhythm
  3. circadian rhythms
  4. circadianity
  5. circadianly
  6. Circaean
  7. circahoralian
  8. circalittoral
  9. circalunar
  10. circalunidian
  11. circannual

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Circaean (page history and authors); Circean (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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