单词 | elephantine |
释义 | elephantine/ɛlɪˈfantʌɪn /adjective Of, resembling, or characteristic of an elephant or elephants, especially in being large, clumsy, or awkward: there was an elephantine thud from the bathroom...
Synonyms enormous, huge, great, massive, giant, immense, tremendous, colossal, mammoth, gargantuan, vast, prodigious, gigantic, monumental, stupendous, titanic, monstrous, very big, very large; bulky, heavy, weighty; ponderous, lumbering, clumsy, laborious informal jumbo, hulking, whopping, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, humongous, monster, almighty, dirty great, socking great British informal whacking, whacking great, ginormous OriginEarly 17th century: via Latin from Greek elephantinos, from elephas, elephant- 'elephant'. Rhymes |
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