mammoth
5
3.9
- adjective
- /ˈmæməθ/
:
enorme
- Her project required a mammoth amount of resources to complete on time.
- mammoth project
- mammoth problem
We got some mammoth ones, some huge ones.
- We got some mammoth ones, some huge ones.
- This is almost a manhole cover sized head of perfect pristine mammoth sunflowers.
- They were just mammoth leaves and come out here and they're all burnt.
- And if you didn't gorge yourself like crazy and have somewhere to put that mammoth stuff, then in the next maybe two weeks that you didn't get a lot of food.
- At that point, we're still doing AOL dial ups, like right, the online video barely exists and televisions mammoth.
Examples
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The school took months of development and putting together; it was a mammoth task, to say the least.
Blog text (28) -
But instead, it grew into this mammoth architectural beacon, a symbol of both the founders' pride and their undeniable generosity.
Fiction book (1998) -
I would love one day to have this mammoth Christmas tree in my house that grew from this.
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This tour is so mammoth compared to where we started off.
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This trial has taken on mammoth proportions.
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But if you come over here, you'll see this mammoth pile of leaves.
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This is an injustice of mammoth proportions.
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Restoring transit and power remains the top priority for Bloomberg, saying, "It's a mammoth job."
Blog text (13) -
If genre mastery results from multiple opportunities to practice, adolescents face a mammoth task in mastering the many genres they encounter across content areas each day.
Academic text (2013) -
The construction company faced a mammoth challenge when building the new bridge over the river.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Larger than usual in size or amount
∞
1.0
Bigger than average in size, number, or amount
∞
1.0
Very large in size, amount, or degree
∞
1.0
Very large in size or number
940
2.9
Very large and impressive in scale
842
2.1
Very large in size, amount, or effect
794
3.0
Very large or impressive
721
2.1
Very large in size or amount
141
3.7
Very large in size, amount, or degree
139
3.2
Very large, much bigger than normal
73
2.5
A very large thing like a pizza or teddy bear
65
3.8
Very large and affecting many people or places
55
4.7
So large in size or amount that it causes great surprise
51
5.7
Very important and impressive because of size or achievement
45
4.1
Being large in amount and often expensive
37
3.6
Very large in size, much bigger than normal
21
4.5
Very large in size or amount, much bigger than normal
19
7.3
Very large, much bigger than usual
15
3.3
Very large and much bigger than usual
13
4.8
A person or thing that seems bigger and more exciting than normal
9
3.9
Very large in size, amount, or importance
8
6.9
Very large and powerful
7
4.2
Is very large and impressive in size or purpose
2
7.5
Very large, heavy, and clumsy
Very large, often said in a playful way
About the same size as a bear and very heavy
Antonyms
Compounds
4
5.2
A large extinct elephant with thick fur that lived in cold areas during the Ice Age
- Specialized
An extinct very large elephant-like animal that lived in North America during the Ice Age
A national park in Kentucky with a very large cave system and an underground river
- Specialized
A very large extinct elephant-like animal that lived in North America during the Ice Age
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Etymology
Mammoth as an adjective comes from the animal name mamont, because people used the animal's great size as a picture of something 'very large'. That's why calling a task or object mammoth means it is enormous.