Modifies a noun

• self-aggrandisement: Well, in short, it's their propensity for elephantine self-aggrandisement.

• sapphire: Think the moon is a blue moon, a single elephantine sapphire.

• brass: Both have the requisite elephantine brass, but matched up with urgent drums they really do the biz!

• size: The name comes partly from the elephantine size but also from the trunk like proboscis possessed by the bulls.

• back: Ganesha, Ganesha, Ganesha...me on his elephantine back, traipsing through the sun-lit Universe...beckoning the errant hitchhiking bikers to climb aboard.

• way: Getting the suit was a doddle, although the trousers sagged in an alarmingly elephantine way.

Modifying Another Word

• so: A piano sound so elephantine it all but trampled over and squashed flat the entire ensemble, even when merely comping.