Another word for elephantine | Synonyms for elephantine

Another word for elephantine

elephantine Synonyms

elephantine

modif.

Immense
huge, monstrous, enormous; see large 1.
Clumsy
ungraceful, ungainly, ponderous; see awkward 1.

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Another word for elephantine

adjective

Of extraordinary size and power:
behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast. (Informal) walloping. (Slang) whopping. See big
Lacking fluency or gracefulness:
heavy-handed, labored, ponderous. See good

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36, and among the Jews of Elephantine in Egypt (5th century B.C.).
"I fear for that woman," Cynthia said as Edith squeezed by the descending elephantine shape of Gladys Turnbull.
It is now known to have existed in Aramaic as far back as the 5th century B.C., appearing on Jewish papyri which were lately discovered by the German mission to Elephantine.'
The mercenary troops at Elephantine mutinied and attempted to desert to Ethiopia, but were brought back and punished.
A granite gateway to the temple of Khnflm at Elephantine bears his name in hieroglyphic, and demotic documents are found dated in his reign.

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