MONOLITHIC Synonyms: 128 Similar and Opposite Words

monolithic

adjective

Definition of monolithic

as in colossal

unusually large The explorers stumbled upon an ancient castle of monolithic proportions.

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Recent Examples of monolithic The risk with any attempt to explain religion to a secular audience is playing into the misapprehension that American Christianity is monolithic. — Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 11 July 2026 Additively manufactured from silicon carbide, this spherical monolithic gyroid core is engineered to operate for up to three decades without requiring refueling. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 8 July 2026 Monolithic integration for CFETs For all its advantages, sequential CFETs are not as straightforward as monolithic processes. — IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026 But the Hispanic electorate has never been a monolithic, or quantifiable, bloc. — Mark McKinnon, Vanity Fair, 4 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for monolithic

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Adjective

When Larry Culp became the CEO of GE in 2018, the colossal conglomerate that Jack Welch built into the most valuable and admired enterprise in America teetered on the brink of collapse.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 23 July 2026
Microdramas skew younger Holywater compiled the State of Microdrama Report with consulting firm Owl & Co, which pegged the global vertical video economy excluding China at a colossal $150B in 2026, up 41%.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 23 July 2026

Definition of colossal

Adjective

Jean overpowers their restraints and creates a gigantic psychic bubble that freezes in place nearly everyone in New York City.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 31 July 2026
The daughter of the Laestrygonians, whose scream summons the gigantic knights, is horrified to see men from the sea.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 July 2026

Definition of gigantic

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Alvarez followed with a titanic shot into the upper deck in right-center field, his 32nd home run of the season that covered 428 feet.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026
In the bell, Holzinger’s previously compact torso becomes long and androgynous, her arms and lats titanic.

— Lauren Oyler, New Yorker, 20 July 2026

Definition of titanic

Adjective

Herod the Great later rebuilt it, renamed it Sebastia, and added monumental structures that survived through the Roman, Byzantine, Arab and Crusader periods.

— Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
Since then, archaeologists have largely agreed that the Warrior of Capestrano is a pre-Roman artifact from the Piceni civilization, and the oldest Italic statue of such monumental proportions.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 21 July 2026

Definition of monumental

Adjective

This period, known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and first noted in the 1990s, may have been the result of an enormous volcanic eruption, or maybe a sudden release of methane.

— Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
That’s an enormous sales figure for any current release, let alone a project that arrived more than a decade ago.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of enormous

Adjective

And that doesn’t consider leveraged ETFs, which have seen astronomical asset growth this year.

— Justin Zacks, CNBC, 24 July 2026
The astronomical cycle is based on solstices and equinoxes, while the meteorological seasons range three months at a time and align with weather patterns.

— Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 22 July 2026

Definition of astronomical

Adjective

To get that power, Silicon Valley is building 1,500 data centers in the United States and counting, and purchasing a mammoth quantity of semiconductor chips.

— Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026
In the 1990s and early 2000s, buzz for the area’s towering sandstone cliffs and mammoth boulders—which are perfect for pitching routes and scrambling up—sparked pilgrimages by global athletes.

— Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 21 July 2026

Definition of mammoth

Adjective

Thus, this system offers scientists a rare chance to study one of the rarest types of binary systems and one of the rarest cosmic explosions.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 July 2026
That, by itself, makes cosmic news, but the nature of that planet and that moon make the story even stranger.

— Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 July 2026

Definition of cosmic

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