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/mˌɑnjəmˈɛntəl/ /mˌɑnjəmˈɛnəl/ /mˌɑnjumˈɛntəl/ Listen

adjective

Monumental adj.

Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.

Serving as a monument; memorial; preserving memory. "Of pine, or monumental oak." "A work outlasting monumental brass."

Of lasting significance; as, a monumental work of literature; a monumental accomplishment.

Exceptionally large in quantity, quality, or degree; as, a monumental amount of work to be done

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Etymology of 'Monumental'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Monumental" Quotes from Famous Books

... looks as if she were prepared to bury them, and not indisposed to enjoy the ceremony. Even Kitty Collins has caught the contagious gloom, as I perceive when she brings in the coffee-urn—a solemn and sculpturesque urn at any time, but monumental now—and sets it down in front of Miss Abigail. Miss Abigail gazes at the urn as if it held the ashes of her ancestors, instead of a generous quantity of fine old Java coffee. The meal ...

— The Story of a Bad Boy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... front of him. He turned in his disconcerting, monumental way and looked at his questioner, who had imitated with a perfect ingenuousness his own brief pause before the word mother. Colville smiled ...

— The Last Hope • Henry Seton Merriman

... ranks to these monumental cathedrals is made the greater by reason of the fact that to-day it is with but one people that we have to reckon, so far as their temperament and environment is concerned. Since feudal times the movement has ever been toward one nation, ...

— The Cathedrals of Northern France • Francis Miltoun

... VII., VIII., and IX., Professor Maspero concludes his monumental work on the history of the ancient East. The overthrow of the Persian empire by the Greek soldiers of Alexander marks the beginning of a new era. Europe at last enters upon the stage of history, and becomes the heir of the culture and civilisation of the Orient. The culture which had grown up ...

— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) • G. Maspero

... earth. And if he had no affections, but lived a stoic existence, exempt from every sympathy, in impassive solitude, he could not be happy, he would not be man: he must be an intellectual marble of thought or a monumental mystery of woe. ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

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