Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By way of memorial: as, the pillar was erected monumentally.
- By means of monuments.
- In a high degree: as, monumentally tedious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By way of memorial.
- adverb By means of monuments.
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- adverb In a
monumental manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It’s obvious that Blanco and Nagin monumentally failed the people of New Orleans.
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Anyone inclined to deny this — does anyone deny this? — need merely recall the monumentally consequential Bush v. Gore decision, which was all about the faces on the court.
Balkinization 2007
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These parks grew into public parks, municipal parks, state parks, and, most monumentally, into national parks.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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These parks grew into public parks, municipal parks, state parks, and, most monumentally, into national parks.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The only human being who even momentarily holds your attention, Cliff Curtis '"Rabbit," is only notable because he's so monumentally annoying.
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It's monumentally fast and the 0-60mph in 4.6 seconds entices you to drive as if you've taken complete leave of your senses.
Car review: Audi RS3 2011
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The terms conservative and liberal have come to signify "not-me" to a polis so intellectually incurious it renders the phrase "Information Age" monumentally tragic.
- r_urell 2009
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For its sitting Governor to put politics over principle and refuse to even share internal documents with the very organization he sat with just last year on the issue speaks monumentally of his character, or lack thereof.
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As multiple commentators have correctly pointed out, countercyclical regulation is a monumentally foolish concept, especially for the financial sector.
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As Justin Fox wrote, “it would be monumentally stupid not to come up with some new way of organizing our financial system after this crisis.”
Wonk Room » Bank ‘Profits’ And Paying Back TARP Can’t Mean A Return To The Status Quo 2009
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