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单词 monumentally
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monumentally

/mɒnjʊˈmɛnt(ə)li /
adverb
1To a very great or extreme degree: he has monumentally failed to ask intelligent questions [as submodifier]: a monumentally stupid idea...
  • A prominent historian at the time described it as the most monumentally useless book ever written.
  • What a monumentally tedious night that was.
  • I think Morrison's going to be monumentally disappointed by the restrictions he'll be faced with.
1.1In a grandly imposing way: monumentally scaled metal sculptures the games had been monumentally financed...
  • She is of diminutive stature and makes monumentally powerful, often huge sculptures.
  • The monumentally scaled drawings and paintings mix references to Mexican-American culture, inner-city life and gang culture.
  • This whimsical but dangerous world was depicted in a monumentally epic 15,000 page, single-spaced typed novel, "In the Realms of the Unreal".
2By means of or like a monument: the monumentally remembered dead...
  • Thin precast-concrete slabs monumentally define the approach from the nineteenth-century city, and its new memorial square.
  • The tomb is austere and extravagant; classically restrained in outline; it gives a monumentally public form to an intensely private grief and mourning.
  • Roman, Egyptian, and Indian are just a few cultures that also sculpted monumentally to commemorate a ruler or deity.
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