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monumental

[mon-yuh-men-tl]

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adjective

resembling a monument; massive or imposing.

exceptionally great, as in quantity, quality, extent, or degree: a monumental work.

of historical or enduring significance: a monumental victory.

Fine Arts. having the quality of being larger than life; of heroic scale.

of or pertaining to a monument or monuments.

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serving as a monument.

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Origin:
1595–1605; < Late Latin monumentālis. See monument, -al¹

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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Example Sentences

And for many in the art world the monumental head is recognizable.

From the selection process to the scheduling of visits, a search is a monumental task.

Even the industrial relics of a workaday port can have a certain monumental grandeur about them.

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And for many in the art world the monumental head is recognizable.

From the selection process to the scheduling of visits, a search is a monumental task.

Even the industrial relics of a workaday port can have a certain monumental grandeur about them.

The rise, the monumental splendor, and the collapse.

Monumental and monochromatic public works had risen on the trampled foundations of prerevolutionary pastel palaces.

Rising from thickets are countless stelae and monumental statues marking the location of.

The monumental resort, edged by a golf course, sits at the head of its namesake.

But even as the library completed this monumental task last week, some said its digital strategy still lags.

Tawney's monumental sculptural weavings redefined the possibilities of her crafts and helped create the genre of fiber art.

To have bargained, instead, for retention based on seniority has been a monumental failure for part-time faculty union members.

Restoring those specimens to pristine condition was a monumental task.

The engineering project that established this rail line was nothing short of monumental.

What an amazing monument this monumental task has become.

Under the right conditions, patterns emerge from the brain's monumental complexity.

Neither of these two monumental lovers were known for being particularly talkative.

It is a staggering scene, seeming to belong in a time in which slaves built monumental works for pharaohs and kings.

Which makes sense when considering the sheer monumental size of the project facing them.

Such a monumental man-made disaster has made it harder for the country to cope with a natural one.

But who knows, the task may be monumental but not impossible.

Jones, a monumental figure in his own right-he is widely.

Various media facades appear as monumental monologues repeating a fixed animation daily.

It is enough of a risk anywhere to try to create a popular movie out of a monumental work of literature.

Its monumental efforts to educate and train have filled the tanks of its innovation engine.

Opportunities to come all this way are far between and extremely pricey, demanding monumental feats of organization.

After making a monumental effort in product formulation and advertising for low-salt products, their efforts failed.

So far, two machines have broken the petaflop barrier, and as more follow we'll see monumental advances in every field of science.

His monumental abstract paintings were exhibited in one-man shows here.

The foufara is a monumental tempest in a miniscule teapot.

The saga of a civilization in three parts: the rise, the monumental splendor, and the collapse.

Then maybe you can recapture some of the excitement and questions that accompany this monumental change.

You'll find them everywhere, doing everything and taking monumental levels of abuse.

In this show of her last works, a monumental figure of a.

The progress that has been made was not random, but the result of monumental efforts and financing.

We had no clue what surprising experiences and monumental revelations awaited.

Warming trends that forced widespread ice melting and monumental sea-level rise weren't a millennium-long process.

Levinson, has said he wants the monumental lobby to be used in some way as public space.

America is on the brink of a monumental fiscal collapse.

Gleick toiled over this monumental book forever, and his work paid off.

It could have been a monumental red question mark, a.

The time and cost of replacing all of this infrastructure are monumental.

The rebuilding of ground zero offers a lesson in how to marry monumental vision with pragmatic know-how.

They have taken on the task-and it remains a monumental task-of ensuring that the planet's gene pool remains healthily diverse.

Many people around the world are anxious to find a solution to this monumental problem.

Monumental negligence being cleaned up by the taxpayer.

We are living through the aftermath of a monumental housing bubble.

Just another monumental farce, being perpetrated by the despotic ruling junta.

The abuse of our precious social security such as child benefit, has reached monumental proportions:.

The hard currency is scarce and the task of fabricating some positive spin from all this mess monumental.

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World English Dictionary

monumental (ˌmɒnjʊˈmɛnt^əl)

—*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*

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Word Origin & History

monumental

1650s in the loose sense of "vast, stupendous;" see monument.

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