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Antonyms for sphinx

Word Origin & History

early 15c., "monster of Greek mythology," from Latin Sphinx, from Greek Sphinx, literally" the strangler," a back-formation from sphingein "to squeeze, bind" (see sphincter).

Monster, having a lion's (winged) body and a woman's head, that waylaid travelers around Thebes and devoured those who could not answer its questions; Oedipus solved the riddle and the Sphinx killed herself. The proper plural would be sphinges. Transferred sense of "person or thing of mysterious nature" is from c.1600. In the Egyptian sense (usually male and wingless) it is attested from 1570s; specific reference to the colossal stone one near the pyramids as Giza is attested from 1610s.

Example Sentences forsphinx

The sphinx did not slay herself until her riddle had been guessed.

Probably King Harmachis had the Sphinx altered to look like him.

The Sphinx is a woman, as I will insist to my dying day, if it were my last word!

Which do you find more impressive, the Sphinx or the Pyramids?

He became an inexplicable creature; a breeched and booted Sphinx.

For hours together he lay stretched upon my knee, like the shadow of a sphinx.

The dawn filtered over the head of the Sphinx, and there were stirrings in the sky.

But he might as well have looked for expression in that of a sphinx.

Good fellow all right, and, for a 'sphinx' as you call him, likable.

But what—as the country parson's sermon drones on—thinks the Sphinx?

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