1.
[syn: massive, monolithic, monumental]
2. characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity;
- Example: "a monolithic society"
- Example: "a monolithic worldwide movement"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Monolithic \Mon`o*lith"ic\, a.
Of or pertaining to a monolith; consisting of a single stone.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
monolithic
adj 1: imposing in size or bulk or solidity; "massive oak
doors"; "Moore's massive sculptures"; "the monolithic
proportions of Stalinist architecture"; "a monumental
scale" [syn: massive, monolithic, monumental]
2: characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total
uniformity; "a monolithic society"; "a monolithic worldwide
movement"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "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