1. monumental - Adjective
2. monumental - Adjective Satellite
Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.
Serving as a monument; memorial; preserving memory.
Source: Webster's dictionaryEschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. Ernest Hemingway
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. William Wordsworth
The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death. Northrop Frye
The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing. Howard Hughes
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics. Brian Greene
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. James Baldwin