elephantesque

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of an elephant.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

adjectiveelephantesque (comparative more elephantesque, superlative most elephantesque)

comparative more elephantesque · superlative most elephantesque

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an elephant.

    He is repugnant (stout, bald, elephantesque), and an ungrateful foreigner.

    2020, Yehuda Moraly, Revolution in Paradise: Veiled Representations of Jewish Characters in the Cinema of Occupied France, Sussex Academic Press, →ISBN, page 91
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    The teal faced being had a wicked looking spider’s mouth and wide elephantesque ears.

    2009, K. L. James, Cassiopeia 91787, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 9

    The most significant symptoms are noticeable on the man’s hands and feet; the patient has lost his fingers and toes and shortening the digits has left him with characteristic elephantesque stumps.

    2011, Christine M. Boeckl, Images of Leprosy: Disease, Religion, and Politics in European Art, Truman State University Press, →ISBN, page 12

    He grinned at the thought that he looked like the ghost of a clown, in the spectral, lingering glow of a few stars and a little bit of moon not yet overwhelmed by the parade of elephantesque clouds.

    2015, C. R. Bryan, Pentacles Five: The Six Inversions of Purpose, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN

    He struck an odd, dramatic pose, which Blue guessed was supposed to look elephantesque.

    2018, Tui T. Sutherland, The Lost Continent (Wings of Fire), Scholastic Press, →ISBN

    Synonyms: elephantic, elephantine, elephantish, elephantlike, elephanty

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveResembling or characteristic of an elephant.

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Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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