Synonyms for mammoth
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : mam-uh th |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmæm əθ |
Top 10 synonyms for mammoth Other synonyms for the word mammoth
Définition of mammoth
Origin :- 1706, from Russian mammot', probably from Ostyak, a Finno-Ugric language of northern Russia (cf. Finnish maa "earth"). Because the remains were dug from the earth, the animal was believed to root like a mole. As an adjective, "gigantic," from 1802; in this sense "the word appears to be originally American" [Thornton, "American Glossary"], and its first uses are in derogatory accounts to the cheese wheel, more than 4 feet in diameter, sent to President Jefferson by the ladies of the Baptist congregation in Cheshire, Mass., as a present, engraved with the motto "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Federalist editors mocked the affair, and called up the word mammoth (known from Peale's exhibition) to characterize it.
- adj huge
- The dessert was on the table before Clarence had done with the mammoth.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- He managed to get one corner of his mouth from behind that mammoth hand.
- Extract from : « Shavings » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- It was time that made him mammoth, and it would not, could not, hurry.
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- He had been trying to hide behind the chair a mammoth basket of fruit.
- Extract from : « The Gorgeous Girl » by Nalbro Bartley
- Shorter than the tree-eater, it was still a thing of mammoth ugliness.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 » by Various
- Jerry struggled with a mammoth boulder,—Winslow leaping to his aid.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 » by Various
- I didn't pick Swifty for his looks, nor for his mammoth intellect.
- Extract from : « Shorty McCabe » by Sewell Ford
- We passed by Mammoth Cave, but at full speed, for it was held by the brigands.
- Extract from : « Memoirs » by Charles Godfrey Leland
- Hanging from a mammoth crane was part of the framework of a great aeroplane.
- Extract from : « Tom Slade with the Colors » by Percy K. Fitzhugh
- A mammoth tent was erected for a dance-house and gambling purposes.
- Extract from : « Three Years on the Plains » by Edmund B. Tuttle
Antonyms for mammoth
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