cyclopedic
adjective
cyclopedic is an adjective meaning “Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-C-L-O-P-E-D-I-C, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does cyclopedic mean?
adjective
- 1
Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia
- 2
wide-ranging
a man of cyclopedic knowledge
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cyclopedic
- more cyclopedic comparative
- most cyclopedic superlative
- cyclopaedic
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cyclopedic?
Cyclopedic appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does cyclopedic come from?
From cyclopedia + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).