Monolithic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Monolithic \Mon`o*lith"ic\, a.
     Of or pertaining to a monolith; consisting of a single stone.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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}, {monumental}]
       2: characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total
          uniformity; "a monolithic society"; "a monolithic
          worldwide movement"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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