elephantine
adjective
[ ɛlɪˈfantʌɪn ]
• of, resembling, or characteristic of an elephant or elephants, especially in being large, clumsy, or awkward.
• "there was an elephantine thud from the bathroom"
Similar:
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,
jumbo,
hulking,
whopping,
whopping great,
thumping,
thumping great,
humongous,
monster,
almighty,
dirty great,
socking great,
whacking,
whacking great,
ginormous,
Origin:
early 17th century: via Latin from Greek elephantinos, from elephas, elephant- ‘elephant’.
