as in gigantic
unusually large
the wedding reception was held under an elephantine tent on the great lawn
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Recent Examples of elephantine
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.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elephantine
Adjective
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In numerous ways, the loss of Fernandes would be a gigantic blow for United.—
Graham Ruthven,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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This gigantic bet-and-get offer is exclusively available to new DraftKings customers who use the code and register today.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
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But the film makes too little a point of one giant forebear.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
6 June 2025
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In one shot, the former Philadelphia Eagles center, 37, posed with a giant pancake in his hands.—
Erin Clements,
People.com,
6 June 2025
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Beyond these rooms is a meditation space/guest room with an enormous Buddha.—
Caron Golden,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 May 2025
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The enormous reservoir sits at the confluence of the U.S. and Mexico borders, and the views offer a mix of steep-walled river canyons and wide-open waterways with 12 public boat ramps and 7 paddling trails.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
31 May 2025
Adjective
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When Autonomous Agents Go Rogue AI agents employ machine learning to continually learn from vast volumes of real-time data.—
Steve Durbin,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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As such, the vast majority of professional women in our workforce have interrupted careers; sadly, the resultant gaps on their resumés make resuming work and maintaining traction exceedingly difficult, sometimes impossible.—
Susan Rietano Davey,
Hartford Courant,
30 May 2025
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Okonkwo made a huge impression in north Wales and his move was made permanent last summer on a free transfer.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
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Southeast Side environmental activists also fought successfully to remove huge mounds of gritty black petroleum coke left for years near their homes.—
Brian J. Rogal,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2025
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In early 2025, the company made a breakthrough with the colossal woolly mouse, sharing parts of the woolly mammoth’s DNA and proving the scientists’ ability to recreate complex genetic combinations that took nature millions of years to create.—
Emma Kershaw,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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Around one-third of the world’s fish stocks are overfished, including those in Southeast Asia, where China operates a colossal fishing operation.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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Every hurricane season in Florida comes with uncertainty but there’s a surprising new source of questions this year surrounding the federal agency that responds to disasters and has historically helped pay for often massive cleanup and recovery costs.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
28 May 2025
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Stanton was a massive piece of the Yankees' run to the World Series last season, and his return is expected to make the Yankees' lineup more dangerous.—
Hunter Mulholland,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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Note: Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani averaged a mammoth 11.40 strikeouts per nine innings in six seasons with the Angels but hasn’t pitched enough to qualify for the all-time list.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
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En route to the mammoth exhibit, after getting lightly heckled by a museumgoer in a NASA hat, they were wowed in the Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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“Elephantine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elephantine. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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