Adjective: cyclic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more cyclic |
| Superlative | most cyclic |
Sample Sentences
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The weather had a cyclic pattern of rain and sun.
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Our recent article on the York-Knaresborough-Harrogate branch mentioned that the diesel multiple-units covering the passenger service did so in the course of complicated cyclic diagrams. [1960 March, “Talking of Trains: N.E. cyclic m.u. workings”, in Trains Illustrated, page 136:]
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Benzene and cyclohexane are both cyclic compounds.
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On it came, closer and closer, and as it did so it became clear that the pilot, if he was alive, had terminal intentions. Though the torpedo somehow missed, the plane itself did not. To those watching helplessly from other stations, the ship's antiaircraft gunners, in their final moments, were an inspiration: eyes focused through iron sights on the plane as it sped at them, weapons hot, going cyclic, hunched down and never flinching until the Betty struck high on the mainmast, killing them all. [2011, James D. Hornfischer, “26: Suicide”, in Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, retrieved 17 Dec 2022, page 256:]
Adjectives inflected like cyclic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
3. Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
4. Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos)
5. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
6. Proto-Hellenic *-kos
7. Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
8. Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
9. Ancient Greek κυκλῐκός (kuklĭkós)bor.
10. Classical Latin cyclicuslbor.
11. Middle French cyclique
12. French cycliquebor.
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14. Classical Latin cyclicusbor.
15. English cyclic
16. From French cyclique or its etymon Classical Latin cyclicus, from Ancient Greek κυκλικός (kuklikós). By surface analysis, cycle + -ic. Piecewise doublet of chakric. See: French Adjectives '
cyclique'.
Verbs referencing "cyclic"
Finnish Adjectives
syklinen.