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elephantesque

elephantesque adjective: resembling or characteristic of an elephant.

Adjective

elephantesque (comparative more elephantesque, superlative most elephantesque)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an elephant.
    • The teal faced being had a wicked looking spider’s mouth and wide elephantesque ears.2009, K. L. James, Cassiopeia 91787, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 9
    • The most significant symptoms are noticeable on the man’s hands and feet; the patient has lost his fingers and toes and shortening the digits has left him with characteristic elephantesque stumps.2011, Christine M. Boeckl, Images of Leprosy: Disease, Religion, and Politics in European Art, Truman State University Press, →ISBN, page 12

Examples of elephantesque in a sentence

  • He grinned at the thought that he looked like the ghost of a clown, in the spectral, lingering glow of a few stars and a little bit of moon not yet overwhelmed by the parade of elephantesque clouds.2015, C. R. Bryan, Pentacles Five: The Six Inversions of Purpose, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
  • He struck an odd, dramatic pose, which Blue guessed was supposed to look elephantesque.2018, Tui T. Sutherland, The Lost Continent (Wings of Fire), Scholastic Press, →ISBN:
  • He is repugnant (stout, bald, elephantesque), and an ungrateful foreigner.2020, Yehuda Moraly, Revolution in Paradise: Veiled Representations of Jewish Characters in the Cinema of Occupied France, Sussex Academic...

Synonyms of elephantesque

Forms of elephantesque

comparativemore elephantesque
superlativemost elephantesque

Origin of elephantesque

From elephant + -esque. Piecewise doublet of elephantish.

Questions about elephantesque

What does elephantesque mean?
Elephantesque means resembling or characteristic of an elephant.
How do you use elephantesque in a sentence?
He grinned at the thought that he looked like the ghost of a clown, in the spectral, lingering glow of a few stars and a little bit of moon not yet overwhelmed by the parade of elephantesque clouds.
What part of speech is elephantesque?
Elephantesque is an adjective.

Words near elephantesque in the dictionary

  1. Elephantas
  2. elephantback
  3. elephantbird
  4. elephantbirds
  5. elephantdom
  6. elephantesque
  7. elephantess
  8. elephantesses
  9. elephantfish
  10. elephantfishes
  11. elephanthood

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