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BNC: 34950 COCA: 34326

elephantine

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elephantine /ˌɛləˈfænˌtiːn/ Brit /ɛləˈfænˌtaɪn/ adjective
elephantine
/ˌɛləˈfænˌtiːn/ Brit /ɛləˈfænˌtaɪn/
adjective
Learner's definition of ELEPHANTINE
[more elephantine; most elephantine]
: very large like an elephant巨大的;似象一样的
: not graceful : awkward or clumsy笨重的;粗笨的
BNC: 34950 COCA: 34326

elephantine

adjective

el·​e·​phan·​tine ˌe-lə-ˈfan-ˌtēn How to pronounce elephantine (audio)
-ˌtīn,
ˈe-lə-fən-
1
a
: having enormous size or strength : massive
b
: clumsy, ponderous
elephantine verse
2
: of or relating to an elephant

Example Sentences

He has an elephantine ego. the wedding reception was held under an elephantine tent on the great lawn
Recent Examples on the Web The life of a mastodon, an elephantine creature that roamed across North America 13,000 years ago, has been illuminated by a study of its tusks. Katie Hunt, CNN, 18 June 2022 Tweaks to its air springs and adaptive dampers lessen this elephantine SUV's body motions with little sacrifice to its ride quality. Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 13 June 2022 In the wet season, elephantine clouds roll in from the Congolese interior and the land glows with startling fecundity. Outside Online, 18 May 2015 Pop goddesses were not diving from the rafters and guitar heroes were not casting elephantine shadows. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2022 Johns’s entire body of work, to go by this elephantine show of more than 500 works, is akin to a trove of Nabokovian love letters — obscure and thwarted, but also punning, mordant, full of life. Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021 The final thing Heels’ second episode does solidify, though, is that in spite of the elephantine pressure to overexplain most of its characterization, there are the lovely little beats that arrive first. Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021 The company has become elephantine in such a short time by offering customers the ability to make purchases and pay later, making money by charging merchants to utilize Klarna’s payment technology. Alexandra Sternlicht, Forbes, 1 June 2021 On one hand are the traditionalists and their elephantine memories, who cling to negative, decades-old impressions of pinotage the way former athletes cling to romantic idealizations of their long-ago glory days in sports. Cathy Huyghe, Forbes, 24 May 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1610, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of elephantine was in 1610
BNC: 34950 COCA: 34326

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