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  • adjective Not monumental.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ monumental

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Examples

  • "unmonumental" theme identified a few years back while seeming individually memorable.

    Canadian Art - Online 2010

  • Robert Musil writes somewhere that nothing is as invisible as a monument; this unmonumental memorial was distinctly visible and yet so discreet as to be almost not there.

    Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011

  • Robert Musil writes somewhere that nothing is as invisible as a monument; this unmonumental memorial was distinctly visible and yet so discreet as to be almost not there.

    Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011

  • Robert Musil writes somewhere that nothing is as invisible as a monument; this unmonumental memorial was distinctly visible and yet so discreet as to be almost not there.

    Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011

  • Robert Musil writes somewhere that nothing is as invisible as a monument; this unmonumental memorial was distinctly visible and yet so discreet as to be almost not there.

    Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011

  • Robert Musil writes somewhere that nothing is as invisible as a monument; this unmonumental memorial was distinctly visible and yet so discreet as to be almost not there.

    Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011

  • Robert Musil writes somewhere that nothing is as invisible as a monument; this unmonumental memorial was distinctly visible and yet so discreet as to be almost not there.

    Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us? Geoff Dyer 2011

  • Robert Musil writes somewhere that nothing is as invisible as a monument; this unmonumental memorial was distinctly visible and yet so discreet as to be almost not there.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Geoff Dyer 2011

  • It was no accident that the inaugural show at the New Museum's new location on the Bowery was called "unmonumental."

    Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories 2009

  • It was no accident that the inaugural show at the New Museum's new location on the Bowery was called "unmonumental."

    Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories 2009

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