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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

... whole, the Rosemont Bayonet Murder was, from a journalistic standpoint, an almost complete bust. There had been no arrest, no hearing, no protracted trial, no sensational revelations. Only one monolithic fact, officially attested and indisputable, loomed out of the murk: "... and the said Frederick Parker Dunmore, deceased, did receive the aforesaid gunshot-wounds, hereinbefore enumerated, at the hands of the said Jefferson Davis Rand and at the hands of the said David Abercrombie Ritter ..." ...

— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper

... space of three days! Ugh! those ugly names! What hedge-schoolmaster has scattered them so loosely and profusely over this lovely land? Whip the wretch with rattlesnakes! Memphis indeed!—as if Memphis with its monolithic statues needed commemoration on the banks of the Mississippi! A new Osiris—a new Sphinx, "half horse, half alligator, with a sprinkling of the snapping turtle." At every forking of the roads, whenever I inquired my way, in my ears ...

— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid

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