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monolithic

[ mon-uh-lith-ik ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of or relating to a monolith.
made of only one stone:
a monolithic column.
consisting of one piece; solid or unbroken:
a boat with a monolithic hull.
constructed of monoliths or huge blocks of stone:
the monolithic monuments of the New Stone Age.
characterized by massiveness, total uniformity, rigidity, invulnerability, etc.:
a monolithic society.
Electronics. of or relating to an integrated circuit formed in a single chip.

First recorded in 1815–25; mono- + -lithic

The more monolithic bureaucracies became, Gowers felt, the more they reinforced their remoteness by using impenetrable language.

The gift was a cynical, symbolic, and contentless gambit in a monolithic USSR.

For one, the GOP needs to realize that there is no monolithic way of thinking in black America.

All these divisions provide further proof that the myth of the monolithic “Israel Lobby” is just that.

The most striking thing about the latter, after all, is its monolithic conformity.

It contains 4,000 tons of granite and is practically monolithic, as if it were carved out of a quarry.

Down the long church, the stout monolithic piers make two virile lines.

There is a noble purity in Chlons Cathedral, due in large part to its soaring monolithic piers.

And he saw that the panel which had swung inward to admit them was set low in the monolithic tomb of King Abibaal himself.

The Alexandrovskaya Column, the world's tallest monolithic stone monument.

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