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cycloptic

cycloptic adjective: one-eyed.

Adjective

cycloptic (comparative more cycloptic, superlative most cycloptic)

  1. (not comparable) One-eyed.
    • DR. EVIL: You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly?1997, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (film)
  2. (figuratively) Approaching or viewing a situation with a single perspective, lacking foresight; short-sighted.
    • Such insightful feeling by way of cycloptic vision may accompany an experience […]1981, David LeRoy Miller, Christs: Meditations on Archetypal Images in Christian Theology, Seabury Press, published 1981, page 38

Forms of cycloptic

comparativemore cycloptic
superlativemost cycloptic

Origin of cycloptic

Derived from cyclops (one eye)

Questions about cycloptic

What does cycloptic mean?
Cycloptic means one-eyed.
What part of speech is cycloptic?
Cycloptic is an adjective.

Words near cycloptic in the dictionary

  1. cyclopsam
  2. cyclopsams
  3. cyclopses
  4. cyclopterid
  5. cyclopterids
  6. cycloptic
  7. cyclopurine
  8. cyclopurines
  9. cyclopy
  10. cyclopygid
  11. cyclopyrimidine

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