MONOLITHIC


Meaning of MONOLITHIC in English

1.

If you refer to an organization or system as ~, 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 ~ system.

ADJ disapproval

2.

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

...a huge ~ concrete building.

ADJ: usu ADJ n disapproval

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