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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The Bucks predictably got a massive game from Giannis Antetokounmpo, who scored 36 points to go with 12 rebounds, but the absence of their point guard, Lillard, was a gigantic blow.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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But seeing the slow nature of gigantic bureaucratic machines such as these, this is not enough to move beyond policy to practice.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Volunteers stirred giant pots of steaming lentils one recent afternoon as people formed a line to receive their portions.—
Declan Walsh,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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Potential Risks: An MRI machine is, at its core, a giant magnet, and therefore the highest risk potential of receiving a scan is making sure there isn’t any metal in or on your body.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 2025
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The Jaguars kicked off the night with a bang, executing an enormous trade to move up for Hunter.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Dozens of David Bowie Albums Have Cracked the Top 10 Throughout his unparalleled career, Bowie racked up an enormous number of top 10s on the Official Physical Albums chart.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The vast majority of people who survive a suicide attempt do not go on to die by suicide – 70% have no further attempts.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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New satellite imagery shows Iran reinforcing a vast underground complex near the country's main uranium enrichment site, according to an analysis by the Institute for Science and International Security.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Scammers convince you to take cash to a bitcoin ATM Her story highlights one huge red flag that consumers must watch out for these days — how scammers are convincing you to take cash to a crypto ATM at the local party store, gas station or grocery.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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When Sheinbaum was six years old, the military, on the President’s orders, attacked a huge student protest in the Three Cultures square in Mexico City.—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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On the season’s closing days, skiers and riders take their turn gaining speed down to the base of the slope, bending their knees and water skiing over a lake, pond or colossal puddle, just hoping to absorb the shock on the other side.—
Anna Fiorentino,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Apr. 2025
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The Institute said while dying adults have previously been filmed by fishermen, the colossal squid have never been seen alive at depth.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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In Season 1, Cassian was part of a massive prison break and an insurrection against Imperial forces in his home of Ferrix.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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The director can watch in real time and add instantaneous comments, eliminating not just the carbon footprint of shipping and travel, but the energy consumption of continuously rendering and transferring massive files.—
Allison Begalman,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Apr. 2025
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Over the span of a mammoth, 52-song setlist, the musicians and TDE labelmates traded the stage back and forth and debuted tracks from their newest releases—2024’s GNX and SOS Deluxe: Lana.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
20 Apr. 2025
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But suffice to say, Snoop gets a dire diagnosis, transports to a battleground set amid giant marijuana plants, gets cozy with a mammoth marijuana bud, dies and visits Tupac, Petty pops in throughout, and Jelly Roll appears in a prison yard, among other wild occurrences.—
Althea Legaspi,
Rolling Stone,
20 Apr. 2025
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“Elephantine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elephantine. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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