cyclopedic

American  

[sahy-kluh-pee-dik] / ˌsaɪ kləˈpi dɪk /

Or cyclopaedic

adjective

1. like a cyclopedia in character or contents; broad and varied; exhaustive.

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Other Word Forms

• cyclopaedically adverb
• cyclopedically adverb

Etymology

Origin of cyclopedic

First recorded in 1835–45; aphetic variant of encyclopedic

Example Sentences

To each of these artists we owe a volume of considerable pretensions, and the "Cook's and Confectioner's Dictionary," 1723, by the former, is positively a very entertaining and cyclopedic publication.

From Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine by Hazlitt, William Carew

Appl. states all new except small portion prev. pub. in Coordinator's cyclopedic Federal tax service, vol.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1975 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

A catalogue of all the thoughts of the mind, and of all their possible modifications, is a cyclopedic history of the universe.

From A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays by Shelley, Percy Bysshe