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Monolithic

adjective

Imposing in size or bulk or solidity. Synonyms: massive, monumental. "Moore's massive sculptures" , "The monolithic proportions of Stalinist architecture" , "A monumental scale"

Characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity. "A monolithic worldwide movement"

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"Monolithic" Quotes from Famous Books

... standard tourist sights. The Winter Palace, where the Bolshevik revolution was won when the mutinied cruiser Aurora steamed up the river and shelled it. The Hermitage Museum, rivaled only by the Vatican and Louvre. The Alexandrovskaya Column, the world's tallest monolithic stone monument. The modest personal palace of Peter the Great. The Peter and Paul Cathedral. The king-size Kirov Stadium. The Leningrad subway, as much a museum ...

— Revolution • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... Sa-el-Hagar, here are the ruins, here is the wall, and somewhere hereabouts should be the buried temple of Neith, which nobody has found." He shifted his pencil. "Here is the lake of Sais; here, standing all alone on the plain, are those great monolithic pillars stretching away into perspective—four hundred of them in all—a hundred and nine still upright. There were one hundred and ten when I arrived at ...

— The Tracer of Lost Persons • Robert W. Chambers

... from Southampton. We passed the Needles Light at dawn, and the lifting day showed the stucco villas on the green and the awful orderliness of England—line upon line, wall upon wall, solid stone dock and monolithic pier. We waited an hour in the Customs shed, and there was ample time for the effect to ...

— The Kipling Reader - Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling • Rudyard Kipling

Words linked to "Monolithic" : large, undiversified, big