monolithic
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7.8
- adjective
- /ˌmɒnəˈlɪθɪk/
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monolítico
- The Ministry of Defense was a monolithic cube, its white walls studded with hundreds of windows.
- monolithic column
- monolithic structure
- monolithic tradition
A moment of crushing, monolithic silence.
- A moment of crushing, monolithic silence.
- And as soon as I I look past them, I could see this giant monolithic slab just sitting there.
- So if you opened a lid on a CPU anytime recently for desktop, you would be greeted with a single large monolithic die.
- It's funny to get monolithic chunks of round stock to lathe.
- There is a giant statue like a monolithic statue that's standing there.
- But it but it is true that that you see that on these monolithic statues of people.
- So that's eliminated and EMIB also reduces concerns of running into the radical limit when you're dealing with large monolithic dyes.
- These are like these monolithic stones that were put up in, I'm going to guess Georgia and not Georgia, like near Russia, Georgia, but Georgia, like Atlanta, GA.
Examples
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In fact, tradition is neither monolithic, immobile, nor closed.
Academic text (1992) -
Unlike the Greeks, the Romans liked monolithic columns, columns carved, that is, from a single piece of stone.
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And yet, these two states, China and the Soviet Union, were monolithic governments through most of the Cold War.
Academic text (2007) -
By this I mean that cultures are neither monolithic nor static; they contain many strands.
Academic text (2003) -
Whereas Soviet borders were monolithic barriers, Russian borders are porous.
Academic text (1994) -
At the empire's height, monolithic obelisks were raised to mark the burials of rulers and nobility.
Academic text (2009) -
In consolidating their hold on retail drug trafficking, many organizations grew into monolithic enterprises that tightly integrated wholesale, mid-level, and street-level markets.
Academic text (2007) -
The Ministry of Defense was a monolithic cube, its white walls studded with hundreds of windows.
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The canyon walls were dark maroon, monolithic silhouettes against a gradually paling sky.
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In the distance, reaching into the clouds, is a monolithic row of vertical sandstone shards called the Flatirons.
Synonyms
878
1.0
Very large in size
236
3.1
Very large and heavy
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6.3
Very large and impressive like a famous building or statue
Made from one solid piece of material rather than from many parts
Antonyms
Compounds
A very large object made from one piece or an organization that cannot change easily
How Massive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Monolithic comes from Greek parts mono- 'single' and lithos 'stone'. Imagine one huge single stone — that's why monolithic describes something massive, solid, and uniform in shape.