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monolithic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective monolithic has 2 senses
- monolithic(s = adj.all) massive, monumental - imposing in size or bulk or solidity; "massive oak doors"; "Moore's massive sculptures"; "the monolithic proportions of Stalinist architecture"; "a monumental scale"
- monolithic(s = adj.all) Array - characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity; "a monolithic society"; "a monolithic worldwide movement"
CIDE DICTIONARY
monolithic, a.
Of or pertaining to a monolith; consisting of a single stone. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
monolithic
accordant, alike, austere, automatic, balanced, bare, basic, characterless, chaste, colossal, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, correspondent, craggy, crystal, crystalline, elementary, enormous, equable, equal, essential, even, featureless, flat, fundamental, giant, gigantic, gravelly, gritty, homely, homespun, homogeneous, huge, immovable, immutable, impenetrable, imposing, indivisible, inflexible, intractable, invariable, invulnerable, irreducible, lapideous, level, lithoid, lithoidal, massive, measured, mechanical, mere, methodic, monumental, of a piece, ordered, orderly, pebbled, pebbly, persistent, plain, porphyritic, primal, primary, pure, pure and simple, regular, rigid, robotlike, rock-ribbed, rock-strewn, rock-studded, rocklike, rocky, sandy, severe, shingled, shingly, simon-pure, simple, single, smooth, solid, spare, stable, stark, steadfast, steady, stolid, stonelike, stony, systematic, trachytic, unadorned, unbending, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, uncluttered, undeviating, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undiversified, uniform, unruffled, unvaried, unvarying
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