Difference between enormous and mammoth
enormous
Definitions
adjective
- extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
Examples
Something of an all-star outfit, each band member is an accomplished musician with an impressive r sum and enormous talent.
Many students derived enormous satisfaction from the course.
By its nature it will be great for political rights management, because it's an enormously penetrative surveillance tool, and it makes it hard to do anything anonymously involving a computer.
mammoth
Definitions
adjective
- so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth
noun
- any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks
Examples
Of course, getting all this infrastructure right is a mammoth undertaking in debt-ridden times.
Over 120 pieces of flint waste show that Neanderthals had made butchery tools on site to carve up the mammoths.
One mammoth cloud lay half-way across the sky, a big fleecy blanket, dragging its train.
