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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

... of marriage; he had scorned the College, and now he turned by preference to one of her representatives, influenced, in spite of prejudice and disillusioning experience, by respect for her ideals. There she loomed, seeming monolithic in her solidity, a part of the rock on which she was built, her windows sending out shafts of light into the surrounding darkness, ...

— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins

... always built. Caesar had found many evidences of an advanced state of society. Antiquarians of our day, exploring German graves, discover signs of it in splendid weapons of war and domestic utensils buried with the dead. Monolithic sarcophagi have been found which give eloquent testimony of the absorption by them of Roman culture. Western Germany, in fact, had become, in the third century, a well-ordered and civilized land. Christianity was well established there. In general the country compared favorably with ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume V (of X) • Various

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