The meaning of MONOLITHIC is of, relating to, or resembling a monolith : huge, massive. How to use monolithic in a sentence.

People think of "the media " as this great monolithic thing that’s out there. A monolithic building or rock is large and solid. The state can no longer be seen as monolithic, but should rather be …

Monolithic definition: of or relating to a monolith.. See examples of MONOLITHIC used in a sentence.

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.

monolithic - characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity; "a monolithic society"; "a monolithic worldwide movement"

There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective monolithic. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

Definition of monolithic adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. used to describe large single vertical blocks of stone, especially ones that were shaped into a column by people …

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.

Definition of monolithic as in colossal unusually large The explorers stumbled upon an ancient castle of monolithic proportions.

When something is monolithic it's big, and made of one thing. A large piece of stone jutting from the earth is a monolith, and Detroit's economy when it depended entirely on the auto industry …