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monumentous

monumentous adjective: monumental; very large or important.

Adjective

monumentous (comparative more monumentous, superlative most monumentous)

  1. monumental; very large or important
    • ... commencing a monumentous catalogue of the Hemiptera of the world ...1910, Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Volume 2, Issue 2, page 23
    • ... Finch Parsons, who almost single-handedly tackled the momentous and monumentous task of enlisting patrons; ...1947, P&S '47: The Yearbook of The College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
  2. memorable or remarkable; worthy of recording or memorializing.
    • He kept them to himself, however, and contented himself with remarking to the carpenter that he had never met with a more "monumentous episode."1889, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Firm of Girdlestone, New York: Lovell, Coryell & Co, →OCLC, page 339
    • In 1935, a young LTJG Cecil H. Coggins, while working for the ONI, made a monumentous intelligence discovery.1994, U.S. Department of the Navy, The Naval Criminal Investigative Service: To Protect and Serve

Examples of monumentous in a sentence

  • In order to remedy this lack of ability I suggest that the Dramatic Society and the Musical Clubs join their ranks to produce a truly great opera, a magnificent spectacle, a monumentous work.1950 May, Joseph A. Appleyard, The Stylus:
  • "On this here monumentous occasion, Mrs.1911 October, Jeffrey Farnol, The Money Moon, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, page 321:

Forms of monumentous

comparativemore monumentous
superlativemost monumentous

Origin of monumentous

From monument + -ous. First attested in 1889, probably a new formation, comparable with Latin monumentosum, Portuguese monumentoso (“monumental”).

Questions about monumentous

What does monumentous mean?
Monumentous means monumental; very large or important.
How do you use monumentous in a sentence?
In order to remedy this lack of ability I suggest that the Dramatic Society and the Musical Clubs join their ranks to produce a truly great opera, a magnificent spectacle, a monumentous work.
What part of speech is monumentous?
Monumentous is an adjective.

Words near monumentous in the dictionary

  1. monumentation
  2. monumented
  3. monumenting
  4. monumentless
  5. monumentlike
  6. monumentous
  7. monuments
  8. monureid
  9. monureide
  10. monureides
  11. monureids

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