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Monolithic   /mˌɑnəlˈɪθɪk/   Listen
Monolithic

adjective
1.
Imposing in size or bulk or solidity.  Synonyms: massive, monumental.  "Moore's massive sculptures" , "The monolithic proportions of Stalinist architecture" , "A monumental scale"
2.
Characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity.  "A monolithic worldwide movement"






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"Monolithic" Quotes from Famous Books



... at Memphis—certainly an extensive tour within the short 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 ...
— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid

... in late 1978 the Chinese leadership has been trying to move the economy from the sluggish Soviet-style centrally planned economy to a more productive and flexible economy with market elements—but still within the framework of monolithic Communist control. To this end the authorities have switched to a system of household responsibility in agriculture in place of the old collectivization, increased the authority of local officials and plant managers in industry, permitted ...
— The 1990 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... was her last impression of the evening. The lighted office buildings, the murk of rain, the haze of light in the heavens, and raised against it the pile of the Board of Trade Building, black, grave, monolithic, crouching on its foundations, like a monstrous sphinx with blind eyes, silent, grave,—crouching there without a sound, without sign of life under the night and ...
— The Pit • Frank Norris

... by the strong face, the look of monolithic power that the communist dictators wear before the outside world. Remember their power has no basis in consent. Remember they are so afraid of the free world's ideas and ways of life, they do not dare to let their people know about them. Think of the massive ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various



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



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