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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

cycloptic en · ADJ

Etymology

Derived from cyclops (one eye)

Meanings

  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:

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most cycloptic Degree=Sup lexicographic
more cycloptic Degree=Cmp lexicographic