Elephantish

Quick meaning: Elephantish is an adjective meaning Resembling an elephant.

Meaning

Resembling an elephant.

More Meanings

1. Characteristic of an elephant.

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

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