elephantine

adjective

1. Of extraordinary size and power: behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast. Informal walloping. Slang whopping. See big/small/amount.
2. Lacking fluency or gracefulness: heavy-handed, labored, ponderous. See good/bad.

adj

Definition: enormous
Antonyms: small

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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.

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - elefantagtig, kæmpestor, klodset

Nederlands (Dutch)
onhandig, zwaarwichtig, log, enorm, betreffende olifanten

Français (French)
adj. - lourd, gauche, éléphantesque, lourd (esprit) (iro)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - schwerfällig, riesengroß

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ελεφάντινος, τεράστιος, ογκώδης

Italiano (Italian)
pesante, elefantino

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - elefantino

Русский (Russian)
слоновый, слоноподобный, неуклюжий, тяжеловесный, непосильный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - pesado, ponderoso, torpe, mastodóntico, descomunal

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - elefant-, stor som en elefant

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
象的, 粗笨的, 巨大的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 象的, 粗笨的, 巨大的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 코끼리 같은, 거대한, 볼품 없는

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 象の, 象のような, 巨大な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) ضخم, أخرق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮כמו פיל, ענקי, מגושם‬

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