Synonyms for elephantine
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Gargantuan — very large
gargantuan, gigantic, colossal, enormous, giant, mammoth, huge, large, immense, monstrous, titanic, massive, jumbo, big, hulking, prodigious, monumental, leviathan, stupendous, herculean, vast, astronomic
2. Elephantlike — of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of elephants
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of elephants.
- adj. 2
Very large.
Example sentences
- enormous She lives alone in a house of enormous dimensions.
- gigantic The Algiers Grand Mosque is a gigantic structure.
- colossal The project required a colossal amount of funding.
- gargantuan There is a gargantuan spider in the bathroom.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| elephantine | steady | |
| enormous | steady | |
| gigantic | steady | |
| colossal | steady | |
| gargantuan | rising | |
| pachydermatous | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- big1
- 4 letters
- huge1, vast1
- 5 letters
- large1, giant2, jumbo2
- 7 letters
- massive2, immense2, titanic3, mammoth2, hulking2
- 8 letters
- enormous3, gigantic3, colossal3
- 9 letters
- monstrous2, leviathan4, herculean4, elephanty
- 10 letters
- monumental4, prodigious3, stupendous3, gargantuan4, astronomic
- 11 letters
- elephantish
- 12 letters
- elephantlike
- 13 letters
- elephantesque
- 14 letters
- pachydermatous
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (giant2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- éléphantesque
- Italiano
- elefantesco