mammoth

1. 1.

   so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth

   “a gigantic redwood”

   “gigantic disappointment”

   “a mammoth ship”

   “a mammoth multinational corporation”

   Synonymsgigantic

   Similarlarge

Other forms of mammoth

plural

mammoths·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mammoth

What does mammoth mean?

mammoth means "any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mammoth?

mammoth has 2 syllables: mam-moth. The stress falls on "mam". In IPA it is /ˈmæməθ/.

What is another word for mammoth?

Close synonyms include gigantic. 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 mammoth a common word?

mammoth is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.