monumental

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  1. adjective Of, resembling, or serving as a monument.
  2. adjective Impressively large, sturdy, and enduring.
  3. adjective Of outstanding significance: Einstein's monumental contributions to physics.
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  • Doc Savage had time to reflect the deputy's calm was monumental, then the souped-up old car rocked like a drunk on roller-skates; for a moment it traveled sidewise like a trotting dog, the tires making awful, fiendish screaming noises. —  159 - Death Is A Round Black Spot
  • The circumstances felt monumental, the words he had rehearsed ended up feeling pedestrian. —  RemoteControl
  • He didn't know much about classical music, and that string quartet he'd been inveigled into attending last year had been a monumental waste of time. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2008
  • Flying 20K sales / marketing people across the world for a week, renting out the Georgia Dome and Six Flags, hiring Pink to play a concert, etc ... is a monumental waste of money and should be stopped immediately ..
  • Just like the election and administration of President Barack Obama are monumental, the inauguration parade reveals a tradition of historic firsts. —  BLACK ENTERPRISE
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  1. = F. Spanish monumental, from Latin monumentalis, of or belonging to a monument, from monumentum, a monument: see monument.
 

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