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elephantine    音标拼音: [,ɛləf'ænt,in]
a. 象的,巨大的,粗笨的

象的,巨大的,粗笨的

elephantine
adj 1: of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo
shrimp" [synonym: {elephantine}, {gargantuan}, {giant},
{jumbo}]

Elephantine \El`e*phan"tine\, a. [L. elephantinus of ivory, Gr.
?: cf. F. ['e]l['e]phantin.]
Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant
(commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of
elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread.
[1913 Webster]

{Elephantine epoch} (Geol.), the epoch distinguished by the
existence of large pachyderms. --Mantell.

{Elephantine tortoise} (Zo["o]l.), a huge land tortoise;
esp., {Testudo elephantina}, from islands in the Indian
Ocean; and {T. elephantopus}, from the Galapagos Islands.
Elephantoid

118 Moby Thesaurus words for "elephantine":
Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
Homeric, Latinate, abysmal, arid, astronomic, awkward, barren,
blah, blank, bloodless, bombastic, bulky, characterless, clumsy,
cold, colorless, colossal, cramped, cumbersome, cumbrous, dead,
dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty,
effete, elephantlike, empty, enormous, epic, etiolated, fade, flat,
forced, formal, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantic, graceless,
guinde, halting, heavy, heavy-handed, heroic, ho-hum, hollow, huge,
hulking, hulky, immense, inane, inexcitable, infinite, inkhorn,
insipid, jejune, jumbo, labored, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited,
lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, mammoth, massive,
massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pale,
pallid, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poky, pompous, ponderous,
prodigious, profound, sesquipedalian, slow, solemn, spiritless,
sterile, stiff, stilted, stodgy, stuffy, stupendous, superficial,
tasteless, tedious, titanic, towering, tremendous, turgid,
ungraceful, uninspired, unlively, unwieldy, vapid, vast, wooden

Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous {hogs}
(owing perhaps to poor design founded on {brute force and
ignorance}) and exceedingly {hairy} in source form. An
elephantine program may be functional and even friendly, but
(as in the old joke about being in bed with an elephant) it's
tough to have around all the same (and, like a pachyderm,
difficult to maintain). In extreme cases, hackers have been
known to make trumpeting sounds or perform expressive
proboscatory mime at the mention of the offending program.
Usage: semi-humorous. Compare "has the elephant nature" and
the somewhat more pejorative monstrosity. See also
{second-system effect} and {baroque}.

[{Jargon File}]


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  • Elephantine - Wikipedia
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    ELEPHANTINE definition: pertaining to or resembling an elephant See examples of elephantine used in a sentence





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