MONOLITHIC


Meaning of MONOLITHIC in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ mɒnəlɪθɪk ]

1.

If you refer to an organization or system as monolithic , you are critical of it because it is very large and very slow to change, and does not seem to have different parts with different characters.

...an authoritarian and monolithic system.

ADJ [ disapproval ]

2.

If you describe something such as a building as monolithic , you do not like it because it is very large and plain with no character.

...a huge monolithic concrete building.

ADJ : usu ADJ n [ disapproval ]

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