1 [usuallybeforenoun] very important and having a great influence, especially as the result of years of work:
a monumental achievement * Gibbon's monumental work 'The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire'
2 [onlybeforenoun] very large, good, bad, stupid, etc:
a book of monumental significance * We have a monumental task ahead of us. * It seems like an act of monumental folly. * We must act now to avert a disaster of monumental proportions.
3 [onlybeforenoun] appearing in or serving as a monument:
a monumental inscription / tomb * a monumental mason (= a person who makes monuments)
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