monolithically
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- adverb
- /ˌmɒnəˈlɪθɪkli/
- The organization operates monolithically, ensuring that all its branches are aligned in purpose and strategy.
Examples
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It's made on glass monolithically and in this case it's frameless.
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Conservative Catholics (inasmuch as any of these kinds of categories can be referenced monolithically) have long insisted that being Catholic means being loyal to the pope, so this loyalty should not depend on who holds the office.
Academic text (2015) -
Since those issues are very important to conservatives, the press is perceived as monolithically liberal.
Blog text (15) -
Although you wouldn't have thought it possible, Americans seem to be asking even fewer questions about their government today than in 1991, and the major media sound even more monolithically jingoistic.
Fiction book (2002) -
They often assume that the dramatic message is created by a dominant force that monolithically imposes its will on the spectators.
Academic text (1992) -
No, what is oft-asserted here is that the universities are monolithically liberal and hostile to students and scholars who contest that worldview—something that is obvious to any honest observer.
Blog text (14) -
Nevertheless, the ongoing tendency by a number of federal agencies to treat Indian tribes monolithically is based on the obsolete and, more importantly, fictitious concept of "the" mythic, aboriginal Indian.
Academic text (1995) -
My argument, then, is that Tuleo men's reactions were neither inevitable products of a transhistorical Nicaraguan male chauvinism nor of a monolithically "patriarchal" revolutionary state.
Academic text (2003) -
Not every community votes monolithically; there can be significant diversity of opinion within any group.
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Many assume that tech companies function monolithically, but there are often many differing views within them.
Synonyms
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In a way that makes people or parts act as one
Antonyms
How Unified
Surface Forms
Morphology
monolithically = monolithic (transparent) = monolith + ic + ally
The adverb is formed by adding a standard adverbial suffix to the adjective 'monolithic', preserving its sense of acting as a single unified whole.
Etymology
Monolithically comes from mono- meaning 'one' and -lith- meaning 'stone', so imagine a single big stone, a 'monolith'. So to do something monolithically is to make or run it as one whole block, not split into parts.