English-Thai Dictionary

elephantine

ADJ คล้าย ช้าง  kai-chang

 

elephantine

ADJ ใหญ่โต และ งุ่มง่าม  เทอะทะ  เชื่องช้า  awkward clumsy ungainly yai-to-lae-ngum-ngam

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ELEPHANTINE

a.Pertaining to the elephant; huge; resembling an elephant; or perhaps white, like ivory. 1. In antiquity, an appellation given to certain books in which the Romans registered the transactions of the senate, magistrates, emperors and generals; so called perhaps, as being made of ivory.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ELEPHANTINE

El `e *phan "tine, a. Etym: [L. elephantinus of ivory, Gr. éléphantin.]

 

Defn: Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size ); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread. Elephantine epoch (Geol.), the epoch distinguished by the existence of large pachyderms.Mantell. -- Elephantine tortoise (Zoöl.), a huge land tortoise; esp. , Testudo elephantina, from islands in the Indian Ocean; and T. elephantopus, from the Galapagos Islands.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

elephantine

el e phan tine |ˌeləˈfantēn, -ˌtīn, ˈeləfənˌtēn, -ˌtīn ˌɛləˈfænˌtin | ▶adjective of, resembling, or characteristic of an elephant or elephants, esp. in being large, clumsy, or awkward: there was an elephantine thud from the bathroom. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: via Latin from Greek elephantinos, from elephas, elephant- ‘elephant. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

elephantine

elephantine |ɛlɪˈfantʌɪn | ▶adjective of, resembling, or characteristic of an elephant or elephants, especially in being large, clumsy, or awkward: there was an elephantine thud from the bathroom. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: via Latin from Greek elephantinos, from elephas, elephant- ‘elephant ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

elephantine

elephantine adjective a tropical plant with elephantine leaves: enormous, huge, gigantic, very big, massive, giant, immense, tremendous, colossal, mammoth, gargantuan, vast, prodigious, monumental, titanic; hulking, bulky, heavy, weighty, ponderous, lumbering; informal jumbo, whopping, humongous, monster, ginormous. ANTONYMS tiny.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

elephantine

elephantine adjective a ring of elephantine boulders: 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; informal jumbo, hulking, whopping, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, humongous, monster, almighty, dirty great, socking great; Brit. informal whacking, whacking great, ginormous. ANTONYMS small.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

elephantine

el e phan tine /èlɪfǽntiːn |-taɪn /形容詞 ｟かたく 否定的に ｠(象のように )ゆっくりとした, のっそりした, 不器用な, 粗削りな .