| 单词 | elephantine |
| 释义 | elephantine (once / 11843 pages) adj Something elephantine is huge, bulky, and a little clumsy, much like an elephant. Riding a bicycle in a rainstorm while trying to hold an elephantine super-sized soda is a bad idea. An elephant is one of the largest animals in the world — even the babies weigh more than most people! So, things that are also enormous can be called elephantine. Other big animals — like whales — are elephantine. A cake that could feed fifty people is elephantine. If you owe a lot of money, that’s an elephantine debt. Elephantine things can also be unwieldy and bulky or just plain huge. Anything elephantine is extra-large. WORD FAMILYelephantine: elephantinely USAGE EXAMPLESAfter this elephantine gestation period, with the UK as a leading advocate of the idea, a deal is now imminent. BBC(Dec 20, 2016) Donald Trump will join his cronies on the elephantine path trampled by the GOP for years. New York Times(Dec 05, 2016) Paris’s fashion week sets the shape of trends to come, and this season, the direction is elephantine. Wall Street Journal(Oct 05, 2016) adj of great mass; huge and bulky Syn gargantuan, giant, jumbo big, large above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent |
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