elephantish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling an elephant.
adj
Resembling an elephant.
adj
Characteristic of an elephant.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more elephantish (comparative)
most elephantish (superlative)