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monumental
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Monumental
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mon·u·men·tal
/
ˌmɒn
yəˈmɛn
tl
/
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[
mon-y
uh
-
men
-tl
]
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adjective
1.
resembling a
monument
; massive or imposing.
2.
exceptionally great, as in quantity, quality, extent, or degree:
a monumental work.
3.
of historical or enduring significance:
a monumental victory.
4.
Fine Arts.
having the quality of being larger than life; of heroic scale.
5.
of or pertaining to a
monument
or
monuments
.
6.
serving as a
monument
.
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Origin:
1595–1605;
<
Late Latin
monumentālis.
See
monument
,
-al
1
Related forms
mon·u·men·tal·ism,
noun
mon·u·men·tal·i·ty,
noun
mon·u·men·tal·ly,
adverb
pre·mon·u·men·tal,
adjective
un·mon·u·men·tal,
adjective
Synonyms
1.
immense, colossal.
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monumental
(ˌmɒnjʊˈmɛnt
ə
l)
—
adj
1.
like a monument, esp in large size, endurance, or importance:
a monumental work of art
2.
of, relating to, or being a monument
3.
informal
(intensifier):
monumental stupidity
monumen'tality
—
n
monu'mentally
—
adv
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Word Origin & History
monumental
1650s in the loose sense of "vast, stupendous;" see
monument
.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
Under the right conditions, patterns emerge from the brain's
monumental
complexity.
The progress that has been made was not random, but the result of
monumental
efforts and financing.
Its
monumental
efforts to educate and train have filled the tanks of its
innovation engine.
Restoring those specimens to pristine condition was a
monumental
task.
Monumental
negligence being cleaned up by the taxpayer.
Which makes sense when considering the sheer
monumental
size of the project facing them.
The hypocrisy here is
monumental
, even by traditional foreign-policy standards of baloney.
Studios full of the latest technological equipment enable him to work on projects that are
monumental
in concept as well as scale.
But some researchers aren't buying it, in part because it would be a
monumental
surprise to find a void that large.
They, too, have had to make
monumental
--even existential--decisions.
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