elephantine

  • 41elephantine — Synonyms and related words: Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, Latinate, abysmal, arid, astronomic, awkward, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, bombastic, bulky, characterless, clumsy, cold, colorless, colossal,… …

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  • 42ELEPHANTINE —    a small island below the first cataract of the Nile; contains interesting monuments and ruins of the ancient Roman and Egyptian civilisations …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 43Elephantine — The site of a Jewish military establishment in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE on the southern border of Egypt, and subsequently of many civilian Jews who had their own temple in honour of Yahweh, though he was apparently worshipped along with a… …

    Dictionary of the Bible

  • 44elephantine — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. huge, mammoth. See size.Ant., minuscule, tiny. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Immense] Syn. huge, monstrous, enormous; see large 1 . 2. [Clumsy] Syn. ungraceful, ungainly, ponderous; see awkward 1 . III …

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  • 45elephantine — ele|phan|tine [ ,elə fæntin ] adjective FORMAL very large, slow, and not graceful …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 46elephantine — el·e·phan·tine || ‚elɪ fæntaɪn adj. like an elephant; huge, enormous …

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  • 47elephantine — [ɛlɪ fantʌɪn] adjective resembling or characteristic of an elephant, especially in being large or clumsy …

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  • 48elephantine — a. 1. Huge, immense, gigantic, colossal, Cyclopean, Herculean, enormous, very large. 2. Clumsy, unwieldy …

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  • 49elephantine — adj 1. huge, big, mammoth, jumbo, gargantuan, massive, enormous; monumental, immense, large, massy, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean; towering, monstrous, titanic; mighty, stupendous, Inf. whopping, Inf. thumping. 2. ponderous, pachydermal, hippopotamic …

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  • 50elephantine — el·e·phan·tine …

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