Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Constituting a monolith.
- adjective Massive, solid, and uniform.
- adjective Constituting or acting as a single, often rigid, uniform whole.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Formed of a single stone, as an obelisk or the shaft of a column.
- Consisting of monoliths: as, a monolithic circle.
- Of or pertaining to a monolith.
- Made of one mass of artificial stone, as a concrete of broken stone, cement, and sand, without joints: used in structures such as mills and houses, dams, retaining-walls, and bridge abutments and piers, floors, columns, and other similar constructions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a monolith; consisting of a single stone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or resembling a
monolith . - adjective Having a massive, unchanging
structure that does not permit individualvariation . - adjective computing consisting of a single
program using a single memory-addressing space
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity
- adjective imposing in size or bulk or solidity
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Examples
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The word monolithic has appeared in 79 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Aug. 26 in "Beats, Bikes, Skateboards and the Big Time" by Melena Ryzik:
NYT > Home Page By THE LEARNING NETWORK 2012
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Learn more about the word "monolithic" and see usage examples across a range of subjects on the Vocabulary.com dictionary.
NYT > Home Page By THE LEARNING NETWORK 2012
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Christians to "stand up" to what he describes as a monolithic Muslim threat.
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Often, Saudi Arabia is described as monolithic and insensitive to modernity and liberalization.
The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010
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Religions look monolithic from a distance, but closer up they are a collection of debates.
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Whoever planted these bombs might view London in monolithic terms (a Crusader city, maybe?), but that bears no relation to the make-up of the city itself.
london 2005
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Religions look monolithic from a distance, but closer up they are a collection of debates.
March 2005 2005
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Religions look monolithic from a distance, but closer up they are a collection of debates.
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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Thus the Times culture, which appears so monolithic from the outside, actually consists of two distinct and parallel cultures, each fully cognizant of the other: the culture of achievement and the culture of complaint.
My Times 2004
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Thus the Times culture, which appears so monolithic from the outside, actually consists of two distinct and parallel cultures, each fully cognizant of the other: the culture of achievement and the culture of complaint.
My Times 2004
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