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单词 monumentally
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Definition of monumentally in English:

monumentally

adverb mɒnjʊˈmɛnt(ə)li
  • 1To a very great or extreme degree.

    he has monumentally failed to ask intelligent questions
    as submodifier a monumentally stupid idea
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is an extreme assessment of the mood within the corridors of power in the days leading up to what could be a monumentally destructive national dispute.
    • He thought the whole issue had been monumentally mismanaged and that some bowlers were being allowed to get away with cheating.
    • Perhaps he was just badly briefed by his advisers on this topic, in which he comes across as monumentally confused.
    • I think Morrison's going to be monumentally disappointed by the restrictions he'll be faced with.
    • You may not have been monumentally surprised to learn this report concluded that the army did a splendid job.
    • What a monumentally tedious night that was.
    • I'm arguing the banks as loan servicers have monumentally messed up.
    • A prominent historian at the time described it as the most monumentally useless book ever written.
    • He seemed monumentally bored with all the shiny stuff on offer.
    • Under closer analysis, our supposedly cheap food supply becomes monumentally expensive.
    1. 1.1 In a grandly imposing way.
      monumentally scaled metal sculptures
      the games had been monumentally financed
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At a larger scale the deep plan was followed through in the designs for St Patrick's, Kilsyth, and most monumentally at St Bride's, East Kilbride (1963-65).
      • I posted about Katz's recent exhibit at Pace, monumentally sized paintings of pine trees, painted at his Maine studio.
      • This whimsical but dangerous world was depicted in a monumentally epic 15,000 page, single-spaced typed novel, "In the Realms of the Unreal".
      • Beautiful shots; San Francisco as a heavenly, monumentally vast and purgatorial non-place.
      • The well-crafted, monumentally enlarged sequences through which he expressed his populist theme determined that the show would be of, but necessarily not by, the people.
      • In these videos, the camera never stands still, often turning a full 360 degrees so that seemingly pin-headed figures, shot from the ground up, loom monumentally.
      • The monumentally scaled drawings and paintings mix references to Mexican-American culture, inner-city life and gang culture.
      • In the painting category Mullins' monumentally huge abstract compositions, "Lost Horizons," are an utterly absorbing visual experience:.
      • You can sell a single, monumentally large and hopefully incredibly stunning photograph for $20,000.
      • She is of diminutive stature and makes monumentally powerful, often huge sculptures.
  • 2By means of or like a monument.

    the monumentally remembered dead
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Here is the civilian victor of the civil war, monumentally appreciated, monumentally declared.
    • Roman, Egyptian, and Indian are just a few cultures that also sculpted monumentally to commemorate a ruler or deity.
    • 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.
    • No monument to him, however, adorns any of its parks: Baltimore has too many soldiers to honor to remember monumentally her poet son.
 
 

Definition of monumentally in US English:

monumentally

adverbˈˌmänyəˈmen(t)əlē
  • 1To a very great or extreme degree.

    he has monumentally failed to ask intelligent questions
    as submodifier a monumentally stupid idea
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is an extreme assessment of the mood within the corridors of power in the days leading up to what could be a monumentally destructive national dispute.
    • Under closer analysis, our supposedly cheap food supply becomes monumentally expensive.
    • You may not have been monumentally surprised to learn this report concluded that the army did a splendid job.
    • What a monumentally tedious night that was.
    • A prominent historian at the time described it as the most monumentally useless book ever written.
    • I'm arguing the banks as loan servicers have monumentally messed up.
    • He seemed monumentally bored with all the shiny stuff on offer.
    • I think Morrison's going to be monumentally disappointed by the restrictions he'll be faced with.
    • Perhaps he was just badly briefed by his advisers on this topic, in which he comes across as monumentally confused.
    • He thought the whole issue had been monumentally mismanaged and that some bowlers were being allowed to get away with cheating.
    1. 1.1 In a grandly imposing way.
      monumentally scaled metal sculptures
      the games had been monumentally financed
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Beautiful shots; San Francisco as a heavenly, monumentally vast and purgatorial non-place.
      • The well-crafted, monumentally enlarged sequences through which he expressed his populist theme determined that the show would be of, but necessarily not by, the people.
      • I posted about Katz's recent exhibit at Pace, monumentally sized paintings of pine trees, painted at his Maine studio.
      • At a larger scale the deep plan was followed through in the designs for St Patrick's, Kilsyth, and most monumentally at St Bride's, East Kilbride (1963-65).
      • You can sell a single, monumentally large and hopefully incredibly stunning photograph for $20,000.
      • The monumentally scaled drawings and paintings mix references to Mexican-American culture, inner-city life and gang culture.
      • In the painting category Mullins' monumentally huge abstract compositions, "Lost Horizons," are an utterly absorbing visual experience:.
      • She is of diminutive stature and makes monumentally powerful, often huge sculptures.
      • This whimsical but dangerous world was depicted in a monumentally epic 15,000 page, single-spaced typed novel, "In the Realms of the Unreal".
      • In these videos, the camera never stands still, often turning a full 360 degrees so that seemingly pin-headed figures, shot from the ground up, loom monumentally.
  • 2By means of or like a monument.

    the monumentally remembered dead
    Lionni's stone sculptures monumentally standing on his grounds in Chianti
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Roman, Egyptian, and Indian are just a few cultures that also sculpted monumentally to commemorate a ruler or deity.
    • No monument to him, however, adorns any of its parks: Baltimore has too many soldiers to honor to remember monumentally her poet son.
    • 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.
    • Here is the civilian victor of the civil war, monumentally appreciated, monumentally declared.
 
 
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