Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to a mastodon; resembling a mastodon; of mammoth size: as, mastodontic dimensions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, a mastodon.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, or pertaining to, the mastodont
  • adjective gigantic, mammoth

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Examples

  • As I await the return of my mastodontic Bava book from the printer, certain interesting tid-bits of information not privvy to me, or unnoticed by me as I was preparing its 1100+ pages, are beginning to come to light.

    Archive 2007-05-13 2007

  • As I await the return of my mastodontic Bava book from the printer, certain interesting tid-bits of information not privvy to me, or unnoticed by me as I was preparing its 1100+ pages, are beginning to come to light.

    It Never Ends 2007

  • Amid cheers that rent the welkin, responded to by answering cheers from a big muster of henchmen on the distant Cambrian and Caledonian hills, the mastodontic pleasureship slowly moved away saluted by a final floral tribute from the representatives of the fair sex who were present in large numbers while, as it proceeded down the river, escorted by a flotilla of barges, the flags of the Ballast office and Custom

    Ulysses 2003

  • Or wander further afield, over Sospel to Breil by the old path -- note the lavender: they make a passable perfume of it -- or else to Moulinet (famous for bad food and a mastodontic breed of mosquitoes) and thence along the stream -- note the bushes of wild box -- and over a wooded ridge to the breezy heights of Peira Cava, there to dream away the daylight under the pines.

    Alone Norman Douglas 1910

  • "Burgruine," while their husbands perspire over mastodontic beer-jugs.

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

  • Gathering himself at the start of his run-in with three walking steps, he would approach the wicket with nine mastodontic strides.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Gathering himself at the start of his run-in with three walking steps, he would approach the wicket with nine mastodontic strides.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Amid cheers that rent the welkin, responded to by answering cheers from a big muster of henchmen on the distant Cambrian and Caledonian hills, the mastodontic pleasureship slowly moved away saluted by a final floral tribute from the representatives of the fair sex who were present in large numbers while, as it proceeded down the river, escorted by a flotilla of barges, the flags of the Ballast office and Custom House were dipped in salute as were also those of the electrical power station at the

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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