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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or relating to an elephant.
  2. adj. Enormous in size or strength: "the proliferation of superstores, superstadiums, [and] elephantine convention centers” ( Herbert Muschamp).
  3. adj. Ponderously clumsy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to the elephant; resembling an elephant.
  2. Hence Elephant-like; huge; immense; heavy; clumsy: as, he was of elephantine proportions; elephantine movements.
  3. Made or consisting of ivory. See chryselephantine.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of elephants.
  2. adj. Very large.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of great mass; huge and bulky

Examples

  • “I agree about that first picture- never have I seen a clearer example of the adjective 'elephantine'.”

    A Long, Weaving Road

  • “Thank you all very much," she said -- and was gone, with a kind of elephantine swiftness.”

    Captain Jim

  • “He had become suave and unctuous, a kind of elephantine irony pervading his laborious attempts at conciliation.”

    I Will Repay

  • “Their predominant expression was good nature, a kind of elephantine docility, which neutralized the awe inspired by his immense size.”

    Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel

  • “Aurochs were immortalised in prehistoric cave paintings and admired for their brute strength and "elephantine" size by Julius Caesar.”

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

  • “Harsh actinic lights illuminated both the elephantine generators and horizontal warp core, and three twitching bodies on the floor.”

    Simon & Schuster: Star Trek The Next Generation®

  • “Black Matt and Tom Morrisey merely held on to each other and lifted their clumsy-booted feet in what seemed a grotesque, elephantine dance.”

    Chapter 4

  • “No, he felt obliged to compose works that couldn't possibly sustain their elephantine size, mega extended canvases that often occupied two or three entire CDs.”

    The Wall Street Journal: The Jazz Scene: Whirling Through a Wynton Wonderland

  • “To be played by America's sweetheart, elephantine smile and all in the silver screen adaption of a seemingly unrealistic and self-indulgent portrayal of a post - matrimonial mourning period.”

    The Huffington Post: The DC Damsel: Eat Pray Choke On It

  • “I have just been telling you what I think, in order to explain why the elephantine gambols of Madame Tetralani spoil the orchestra for me.”

    Chapter 24

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  1. immense
  1. heavy
  1. gigantic

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Other words for ‘elephantine’

  1. big
  1. large

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  1. unwieldy
  2. old-world
  1. knobby
  2. half-hysterical
  1. gouty
  2. bearlike
  1. birdlike
  2. slouching
  1. lightsome
  2. stilted
  1. well-timed
  2. dislocate
  1. queenly

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  1. mastodontine
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  1. amblypoda

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