Thesaurus / elephantine
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General Botha was big, large and great in body and brain—elephantine!
AN ONLOOKER IN FRANCE 1917-1919WILLIAM ORPENThey, like the press as a whole, were obviously waiting to see which way the great elephantine public would jump.
THE REGENTE. ARNOLD BENNETTThe Professor, as I remembered him, had an elephantine sense of humour capable of the most clumsy and unwieldly gambollings.
THE POISON BELTARTHUR CONAN DOYLEHe bowed and shrugged and spread open his hands as he spoke with his elaborate and elephantine sarcasm.
THE POISON BELTARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThere was something elephantine about his nature that prevented him from being simple or casual in his moods.
NARCISSUSEVELYN SCOTTIt recounts my elephantine adventures in pursuit of the obvious.
ORTHODOXYG. K. CHESTERTONMr. Deacon, as one would expect, laughed loudly, took the situation in his elephantine grasp and pawed at it.
MISS LULU BETTZONA GALEThe boy sprang on to the dock wall, and created much merriment with his elephantine caresses.
LOOKING SEAWARD AGAINWALTER RUNCIMANIf you could stand him up, his foot would cover eighteen feet—an elephantine monster.
SIAMGEORGE B. BACONShe was certainly massive, but probably fell short a hundred and fifty pounds of these elephantine proportions.
THE YOUNG ACROBAT OF THE GREAT NORTH AMERICAN CIRCUSHORATIO ALGER JR.WORDS RELATED TO ELEPHANTINE
- beefy
- big
- blimp
- bovine
- brawny
- broad
- bulging
- bulky
- bull
- burly
- butterball
- chunky
- corpulent
- distended
- dumpy
- elephantine
- fleshy
- gargantuan
- gross
- heavy
- heavyset
- hefty
- husky
- inflated
- jelly-belly
- lard
- large
- meaty
- obese
- oversize
- paunchy
- plump
- plumpish
- ponderous
- porcine
- portly
- potbellied
- pudgy
- roly-poly
- rotund
- solid
- stout
- swollen
- thickset
- weighty
- whalelike
- abundant
- ample
- awkward
- beefy
- big
- built
- bulky
- burdensome
- chunky
- considerable
- copious
- corpulent
- cumbersome
- cumbrous
- elephantine
- enceinte
- excessive
- expectant
- fat
- fleshy
- gravid
- gross
- hefty
- huge
- laden
- large
- lead-footed
- loaded
- lumbering
- massive
- obese
- oppressed
- overweight
- parturient
- ponderous
- porcine
- portly
- pregnant
- stout
- substantial
- top-heavy
- two-ton
- unmanageable
- unwieldy
- weighted
- weighty
- zaftig
- ample
- awkward
- beefy
- big
- built
- bulky
- burdensome
- chunky
- considerable
- corpulent
- cumbersome
- cumbrous
- elephantine
- enceinte
- excessive
- expectant
- fat
- fleshy
- gravid
- gross
- hefty
- huge
- laden
- large
- lead-footed
- loaded
- lumbering
- massive
- obese
- oppressed
- overweight
- parturient
- ponderous
- porcine
- portly
- pregnant
- stout
- substantial
- top-heavy
- two-ton
- unmanageable
- unwieldy
- weighted
- weighty
- zaftig
- behemothic
- bulky
- colossal
- cyclopean
- elephantine
- enormous
- extensive
- gargantuan
- giant
- gigantic
- great
- gross
- humongous
- immeasurable
- immense
- jumbo
- leviathan
- lusty
- magnificent
- mammoth
- massive
- mighty
- mondo
- monster
- monstrous
- monumental
- mountainous
- outsize
- oversize
- planetary
- prodigious
- stupendous
- titanic
- towering
- tremendous
- vast
- walloping
- whopping
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