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olympian 音标拼音: [ol'ɪmpiən] a. 奥林山的;庄严的 奥林山的;庄严的 Olympian adj 1: of the region of Olympia in Greece or its inhabitants; " Olympian plain" [ synonym: { Olympian}, { Olympic}] 2: of or pertaining to the greater gods of ancient Greece whose abode was Mount Olympus; " Olympian deities" 3: majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters; " his majestic presence"; " olympian detachment"; " olympian beauty and serene composure" [ synonym: { majestic}, { olympian}] 4: far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; " a night of exceeding darkness"; " an exceptional memory"; " olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; " the young Mozart' s prodigious talents" [ synonym: { exceeding}, { exceptional}, { olympian}, { prodigious}, { surpassing}] n 1: an athlete who participates in the Olympic games 2: a classical Greek god after the overthrow of the Titans [ synonym: { Olympian}, { Olympic god}] Olympian \ O* lym" pi* an\ ([- o]* l[ i^] m" p[ i^]* an), a. [ L. See 1st { Olympian}, n.] Pertaining to, characteristic of, or fitting for one of the gods on Olympus; grand, majestic, or aloof. [ PJC]
Olympian \ O* lym" pi* an\ ([- o]* l[ i^] m" p[ i^]* an), Olympic\ O* lym" pic\ ([- o]* l[ i^] m" p[ i^] k), a. [ L. Olympius, Olympicus, Gr. ' Oly` mpios, ' Olympiko` s, fr. ' O` lympos: cf. F. olympique. See { Olympiad}.] Of or pertaining to Olympus, a mountain of Thessaly, fabled as the seat of the gods, or to Olympia, a small plain in Elis. [ 1913 Webster]
Olympian \ O* lym" pi* an\ ([- o]* l[ i^] m" p[ i^]* an), prop. n. [ L. See 1st { Olympian}, a.] A god who dwells on Olympus. [ PJC] 2. An inhabitant of Olympia. [ PJC] 3. An athlete who competes in the Olympics. [ PJC] 149 Moby Thesaurus words for " Olympian": Elysian, Laodicean, above all that, aerial, airy, aloof, altitudinous, apathetic, ascending, aspiring, backward, bashful, beatific, beatified, benumbed, blah, blank, blase, blessed, candid, celestial, chilled, chilly, cold, colossal, comatose, constrained, cool, desensitized, detached, discreet, disinterested, dispassionate, distant, dominating, dull, elevated, eminent, ethereal, exalted, exclusive, expressionless, extramundane, extraterrestrial, forbidding, frigid, from on high, frosty, glorified, guarded, haughty, heartless, heavenly, hebetudinous, high, high- pitched, high- reaching, high- set, high- up, hopeless, icy, impartial, impassive, impersonal, in a stupor, in glory, inaccessible, indifferent, insouciant, introverted, languid, lethargic, listless, lofty, modest, monumental, mounting, neutral, nonchalant, numb, numbed, offish, otherworldly, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac, paradisic, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, prominent, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, resigned, restrained, reticent, retiring, seclusive, selfless, shrinking, slack, sluggish, soaring, soporific, spiring, spiritless, spunkless, standoff, standoffish, steep, stoic, stupefied, subdued, sublime, superlative, supernal, supine, suppressed, topless, toplofty, topping, torpid, towering, towery, transcendental, transmundane, unaffable, unapproachable, unbiased, uncaring, unconcerned, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unearthly, unexpansive, ungenial, uninfluenced, uninterested, unselfish, unswayed, unworldly, uplifted, upreared, withdrawn
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