Meaning of elephantish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Resembling an elephant.
2. Big, clumsy, or awkward.
3. Typical of an elephant.

Examples

“It is an extinct animal, and on the whole was elephantish, but belonged to the genus Dinotherium, of the group Pachydermata or Proboscidea, to which the mammoth and elephant belong.”

“They’d watched a herd of cat-sized lizards hunting massive elephantish creatures.”

“There was a rustle and a bustle and Tiddles reappeared, looking rather sheepish. Can an elephant look sheepish? Can a sheep look elephantish? Do we care? No, we don’t.”

“People thought it was a sort of shrew, and because it had a long nose they said it looked a bit elephantish. But it's not a shrew and it doesn't really look like an elephant.”

“The majority of women in the current study did voice a dislike of pregnancy for reasons to do with the inherent unpleasantness of being ‘too fat’, ‘out of control’, ‘elephantish’, ‘heavy’, and being unable to fit into ordinary clothes.”

“Even Clementine sighed, in an elephantish way.”

“Another blast rippled the air, and an elephantish man by the doors collapsed. I turned toward the sound. There was a wiry shooter in a hallway off the main floor aiming. I froze a second before frying him. He was a guard.”

“The cleverest but one of all the animals in the circus was the elephant, and he hated the circus man too, and hated having to do silly tricks, which weren’t really a bit elephantish, but only stupid.”

“Thus an elephant remains the same elephant although it changes size (within limits), provided it keeps other elephantish features.”

“Members of the expedition each encounter a different part of the elephant — a leg, the trunk, an ear — and each, believing that he or she has come upon a tree, a snake, or something else un-elephantish, fails to recognize the elephant.”

“Since must there not have been some principle of goodness and sagaciousness first, existing in the elephants' perceptions, that the elephant was able to recognize too... some principle of tolerance, or above all pity, for his captor, who could not help himself, and a certain sense of interest in sportive adventure about whatever he was doing that he recognized as amusing and instructive to his elephantish faculties?”

“We set down our loads the first of marry and sat shaded on wooden benches, with a little breeze wafting over us to watch forty elephants, young, old, female and male, involved in a dozen different elephantish behaviors”

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