Elephantish
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Resembling an elephant.
"It is an extinct animal, and on the whole was elephantish, but belonged to the genus Dinotherium, of the group Pachydermata or Proboscidea, to which the mammoth and elephant belong."
- 2 Resembling an elephant.; Big, clumsy, or awkward.
"The majority of women in the current study did voice a dislike of pregnancy for reasons to do with the inherent unpleasantness of being ‘too fat’, ‘out of control’, ‘elephantish’, ‘heavy’, and being unable to fit into ordinary clothes."
- 3 Typical of an elephant.
"The cleverest but one of all the animals in the circus was the elephant, and he hated the circus man too, and hated having to do silly tricks, which weren’t really a bit elephantish, but only stupid."
Synonyms
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More examples"It is an extinct animal, and on the whole was elephantish, but belonged to the genus Dinotherium, of the group Pachydermata or Proboscidea, to which the mammoth and elephant belong."
Etymology
From elephant + -ish. Piecewise doublet of elephantesque.
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