mammoth
(mæməθ )
Word forms: mammoths
1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
You can use mammoth to emphasize that a task or change is very large and needs a lot of effort to achieve. [emphasis]
...the mammoth task of relocating the library.
You can only undertake mammoth changes if the finances are there.
This mammoth undertaking was completed in 18 months.
Synonyms: colossal, huge, giant, massive
2. countable noun
A mammoth was an animal like an elephant, with very long tusks and long hair, that lived a long time ago but no longer exists.
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Collocations:
mammoth project mammoth proportions
Now well into his seventies, he has some assistance from volunteers, but for many years he worked on this mammoth project alone.
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Now she's about to expand an already mammoth project to a vastly larger scale.
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But these are mammoth projects, and still on the drawing board.
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Now they had been presented with every investigative reporter's dream: a data leak of mammoth proportions.
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This anthropocentric bias has resulted in an ecological crisis of mammoth proportions.
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The true size of the multiple-vortex tornado confused onlookers by its mammoth proportions containing orbiting subvortices larger than average tornadoes and its expansive transparent to translucent outer circulation.
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Translations:
Chinese: 巨大的, 猛犸
Japanese: 巨大な, マンモス
- two-minute silence
- two-night package
- two of a kind
- two-parent household
- two penn'orth
- two-percent milk
- two-piece
- two piece
- two-piece outfit
- two-piece suit
- two-piece swimsuit
- two-run homer
- two sides of the same coin
- two sides of the same coin
- twosome
- two-stroke engine
- two-thirds
- two thirds
- two-thirds majority
- two/three/four of a kind
- two-way
- two-way communication
- two-way conversation
- two-way exchange
- two-way flow