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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Monumental" Quotes from Famous Books

... peculiar to the refinement of our manners, or to modern Europe; it is not the charity of Christianity alone which has hallowed this sensibility, and confessed this equality of affection, which the domestic may participate: monumental inscriptions, raised by grateful masters to the merits of their slaves, have been preserved in the great ...

— Literary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions • Isaac D'Israeli

... is now a monumental artist at Woking, after many vicissitudes. Dear chap, how he did stick out of his clothes to be sure! He was a longlimbed lout, ridiculously tall beside my more youth full compactness, and, except that there was no black moustache under his nose blob, ...

— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... monumental inscription in Bunhill-fields is, Grace, daughter of T. Cloudesly, of Leeds. Feb. 1666.—Maitland's Hist. of ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, - Vol. 10, No. 283, 17 Nov 1827 • Various

... enjoy them. But when you begin calling a room a library it should mean something more than a small mahogany bookcase with a hundred volumes hidden behind glass doors. I think there is nothing more amusing than the unused library of the nouveau riche, the pretentious room with its monumental bookcases and its slick area of glass doors and its thousands of unread volumes, caged eternally ...

— The House in Good Taste • Elsie de Wolfe

... nation, the common dead! And so, I suppose, we are to raise monuments beside the monuments to Reynolds and others, to be erected in the cemetery on the battle-field of Gettysburg. We must there build high the monumental marble for men like Barksdale, whom I have seen in this hall draw their bowie-knives on the Representatives of the people; men who died upon the battle-field of Gettysburg in arms against the Government, and where they now lie buried in ditches, 'unwept, unhonored, and unsung!' They ...

— History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States • Wiliam H. Barnes

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