elephantine in English

adjective

1

of, resembling, or characteristic of an elephant or elephants, especially in being large, clumsy, or awkward.

there was an elephantine thud from the bathroom

synonyms: enormous, huge, gigantic, very big, massive, giant, immense, tremendous, colossal, mammoth, gargantuan, vast, prodigious, monumental, titanic, hulking, bulky, heavy, weighty, ponderous, lumbering, jumbo, whopping, humongous, monster, ginormous

adjective

• enormous, huge, gigantic, very big, massive, giant, immense, tremendous, colossal, mammoth, gargantuan, vast, prodigious, monumental, titanic, hulking, bulky, heavy, weighty, ponderous, lumbering, jumbo, whopping, humongous, monster, ginormous
• giant, jumbo, gargantuan

Use "elephantine" in a sentence

1. His legs were elephantine.

2. These elephantine oddities seem to carry messages.

3. This "Elephantine Triad" included Satis and Anuket.

4. She's so tiny she makes me feel elephantine.

5. Their daughter is quite plump but their son is positively elephantine.

6. 32 synonyms for Cyclopean: behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, elephantine, enormous

7. She was a silly girl, and far too easily impressed by Grunte's elephantine attentions.

8. In the middle of this elephantine travail(http://Sentencedict.com), there came a knock on the door.

9. India's current rulers, the mahouts to an elephantine state, seem at least to understand this.

10. These elephantine oddities seem to carry a message. Each artist has an idiosyncratic eye.

11. In the middle of this elephantine travail, there came a knock on the door.

12. He was deified in the Middle Kingdom and a shrine for his cult was build on Elephantine Island.

13. He got out of his car with difficulty, one elephantine foot first, then the bulk of his enormous body.

14. Over the period since 1945 as a whole, other beasts proved mammoths - of elephantine size but doomed to extinction.

15. His name also appears on several mud seal impressions found at Quesna (in the Delta), Zawyet el'Aryan, Hierakonpolis, and Elephantine.

16. The endearing Bathos and crassness of Laurel found an admirable foil in the elephantine smugness of his rotund partner

17. At first glance it looks as though the structure might belong to the Social Security Administration or some other elephantine bureaucracy.

18. Hotel in Aswan Located in the Nubian Desert on the banks of the Nile, opposite Elephantine Island, Sofitel Legend Old Cataract offers elegant rooms and suites

19. The breathing gear the med group had fashioned for the Invid was a jury-rigged affair of masks, tanks, and tubes, giving Tesla a decidedly elephantine appearance.

20. They were found in the entrance of Peribsen ́s tomb at Abydos, in the underground galleries beneath the step pyramid of (3rd dynasty) king Djoser at Sakkara and on one excavation site at Elephantine.

21. In addition, Stadelmann points to the seal impressions found at Elephantine: they come from a site very close to a stepped pyramid which is said to have been built by Huni.

22. Until Congress enacts legislation to deal with the "elephantine mass" of asbestos claims, or at least Ameliorates the more egregious litigation abuses, insurers, policyholders and claimants will continue to battle these issues in court.

23. In this book, Bob Becking provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the origins, lives, and eventual fate of the Yehudites, or Judeans, at Elephantine, framed within the greater history of the rise and fall of the Persian Empire.