(a.) Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread.
Example Sentences:
(1) My biggest sin is that I have an elephantine memory – I remembered far back, and I didn't forget his talents."
(2) In case his writers are wondering what word to use instead, he offers a "handy list of synonyms" that includes "huge", "prodigious", "elephantine" and the very adult Swiftian term "Brobdingnagian".
(3) Support for shale gas Plans for a new nuclear power station at Hinkley in Somerset have also come under fire recently, with the Conservative peer Lord Howell of Guildford warning of rising costs of the “elephantine” project and HSBC criticising the £25bn cost for Hinkley’s new reactors .
(4) Modern Aswan sits on the bank of the Nile, but Yebu, site of the area's first settlement, is on the adjacent Elephantine Island.
(5) Club Med moved out, the French Sofitel chain manages the Old Cataract Hotel – or will do when it reopens next January – and the Swiss-run Mövenpick does its best with a concrete block on Elephantine Island.
(6) Bet el Kerem ( betelkerem.com ; doubles from £26) is one of the guesthouses on Elephantine Island.
(7) He depicted a legal aid budget grown out of control, one whose elephantine annual spend of £914m could no longer be defended.
(8) They suck money from consumer spending and redirect it to oil-exporting countries, which typically hoard it in elephantine foreign exchange reserves or unspent bank deposits.
(9) For in all this no one mentions the elephantine figure in the room – America's debt, last estimated to be $16,699tn .
(10) The image of Aunt Jemima, the elephantine mammy figure whose image was emblazoned on a pancake mix, seems to be the most frequently reproduced icon.