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Herculæan

Herculæan is the archaic spelling of Herculean.

Meaning of Herculean

Adjective

Herculean (comparative more Herculean, superlative most Herculean)

  1. Of extraordinary might, power, size, etc.; suggesting Hercules in size or strength.
    • But this is not the best:—look, pr'ythee, Charmian, / How this Herculean Roman does become / The carriage of his chafe.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  2. Requiring a huge amount of work; of extraordinary difficulty.
    • a Herculean labour

Forms of Herculæan

comparativemore Herculæan
superlativemost Herculæan

Origin of Herculæan

Comparable with Augæan or Europæan.

Questions about Herculæan

What is Herculæan the archaic spelling of?
Herculæan is the archaic spelling of Herculean.

Words near Herculæan in the dictionary

  1. herculian
  2. Herculid
  3. Herculids
  4. herculin
  5. Herculina
  6. Herculæan
  7. hercurrah
  8. hercurrahs
  9. Hercverse
  10. Hercynia
  11. Hercynian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Herculæan (page history and authors); Herculean (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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