elephantish adjective3 •Resembling an elephant.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. — 1877 •Big, clumsy, or awkward.Even Clementine sighed, in an elephantish way. — 2016 •Characteristic of an elephant.The cleverest but one of all the animals in the circus was the elephant, and he hated the circus man too, and hated having to do silly tricks, which weren’t really a bit elephantish, but only stupid. — 1960 formsmore elephantish · most elephantish