What does elephantine mean?

elephantine means "of great mass; huge and bulky".

How many syllables are in elephantine?

elephantine has 4 syllables: el-e-phan-tine. The stress falls on "phan". In IPA it is /ˌɛləˈfænˌtin/.

What is another word for elephantine?

Close synonyms include gargantuan, giant, jumbo. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elephantine a common word?

elephantine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with elephantine?

24 words rhyme with elephantine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

Elephantine — meaning and pronunciation

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
of great mass; huge and bulky
“a jumbo jet”
“jumbo shrimp”
Synonymsgargantuan giant jumbo
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What does elephantine mean?: elephantine means "of great mass; huge and bulky".
How many syllables are in elephantine?: elephantine has 4 syllables: el-e-phan-tine. The stress falls on "phan". In IPA it is /ˌɛləˈfænˌtin/.

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