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/mˌɑnjəmˈɛntəl/ /mˌɑnjəmˈɛnəl/ /mˌɑnjumˈɛntəl/ Listen

adjective

Monumental adj.

Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.

Serving as a monument; memorial; preserving memory. "Of pine, or monumental oak." "A work outlasting monumental brass."

Of lasting significance; as, a monumental work of literature; a monumental accomplishment.

Exceptionally large in quantity, quality, or degree; as, a monumental amount of work to be done

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Etymology of 'Monumental'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Monumental" Quotes from Famous Books

... monumental effigy of an imaginary ancestor to be carved in the style of the thirteenth century ...they adapted the plate-armour effigy to their purpose by cutting similar arms on the skirts, and they had three rude effigies fabricated by way of filling up the gaps between the fourteenth ...

— Love Romances of the Aristocracy • Thornton Hall

... associated with the period is that of the brothers Jan and Hubert Van Eyck, and the work which naturally comes to the mind, when thinking of them, is the monumental altarpiece which they painted for Jos. Vyt, lord of Pamele, to be placed in his chapel in the Cathedral of St. John in Ghent. This work, generally known as the "Mystic Lamb," is composed of ten smaller pictures, but the partitions separating the various ...

— Belgium - From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day • Emile Cammaerts

... circulated, and the public not less; the limit stood off, the way round was easy, the east end was as fine, in its fashion, as the west, and there were also side doors for entrance, between the two—large, monumental, ornamental, in their style—as for all proper great churches. By some such process, in fine, had the Prince, for his father-in-law, while remaining solidly a feature, ceased to be, at all ominously, ...

— The Golden Bowl • Henry James

... it remains a universal principle throughout decorative art. The decorative effect and charm of the relief of large and bold forms upon rich and delicate diapers is also an important resource of the designer. The monumental art of the Middle Ages affords multitudes of examples of this principle in ornamental treatment. The miniaturist of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries constantly relieved his groups of figures upon ...

— Line and Form (1900) • Walter Crane

... "the monumental hireoglyphics of the Egyptians were almost invariably painted with the liveliest tints; and when similar hireoglyphics were executed on a reduced scale, and in a more cursive form upon papyri or scrolls made from the leaves of the papyrus the pages were written with ...

— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho

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