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elephantine

/el-uh-fan-teen, -tahyn, -tin, el-uh-fuhn-teen, -tahyn/US // ˌɛl əˈfæn tin, -taɪn, -tɪn, ˈɛl ə fənˌtin, -ˌtaɪn //UK // (ˌɛlɪˈfæntaɪn) //

大象,大象的,大象式,大象般地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or resembling an elephant.
    • : huge, ponderous, or clumsy: elephantine movements; elephantine humor.

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Examples

  • Lloyd Grove on the elephantine cleanup challenges of having an unruly collection of egomaniacs as backers.

  • General Botha was big, large and great in body and brain—elephantine!

  • They, like the press as a whole, were obviously waiting to see which way the great elephantine public would jump.

  • The Professor, as I remembered him, had an elephantine sense of humour capable of the most clumsy and unwieldly gambollings.

  • He bowed and shrugged and spread open his hands as he spoke with his elaborate and elephantine sarcasm.

  • There was something elephantine about his nature that prevented him from being simple or casual in his moods.