'Elephantine' definitions:
Definition of 'elephantine'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" [syn: elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo]
Definition of 'Elephantine'
From: GCIDE
- Elephantine \El`e*phan"tine\, a. [L. elephantinus of ivory, Gr. ?: cf. F. ['e]l['e]phantin.] Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread. [1913 Webster]
- Elephantine epoch (Geol.), the epoch distinguished by the existence of large pachyderms. --Mantell.
- Elephantine tortoise (Zo["o]l.), a huge land tortoise; esp., Testudo elephantina, from islands in the Indian Ocean; and T. elephantopus, from the Galapagos Islands. Elephantoid
Synonyms of 'elephantine'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abysmal,
- arid,
- astronomic,
- Atlantean,
- awkward,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- bombastic,
- Brobdingnagian,
- bulky,
- characterless,
- clumsy,
- cold,
- colorless,
- colossal,
- cramped,
- cumbersome,
- cumbrous,
- Cyclopean,
- dead,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantlike,
- empty,
- enormous,
- epic,
- etiolated,
- fade,
- flat,
- forced,
- formal,
- Gargantuan,
- gargantuan,
- giant,
- giantlike,
- gigantic,
- graceless,
- guinde,
- halting,
- heavy,
- heavy-handed,
- Herculean,
- heroic,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- Homeric,
- huge,
- hulking,
- hulky,
- immense,
- inane,
- inexcitable,
- infinite,
- inkhorn,
- insipid,
- jejune,
- jumbo,
- labored,
- Latinate,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- low-spirited,
- lubberly,
- lumbering,
- lumpish,
- lumpy,
- maladroit,
- mammoth,
- massive,
- massy,
- mighty,
- monster,
- monstrous,
- monumental,
- mountainous,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- prodigious,
- profound,
- sesquipedalian,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- stupendous,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- titanic,
- towering,
- tremendous,
- turgid,
- ungraceful,
- uninspired,
- unlively,
- unwieldy,
- vapid,
- vast,
- wooden