monumental
Speech parts
1. monumental - Adjective
2. monumental - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.
Serving as a monument; memorial; preserving memory.
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Examples
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height.
The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.
The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years.