monumentous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
monumental; very large or important
adj
memorable or remarkable; worthy of recording or memorializing.
Example Sentences
- "... commencing a monumentous catalogue of the Hemiptera of the world ..."
- "... Finch Parsons, who almost single-handedly tackled the momentous and monumentous task of enlisting patrons; ..."
- "In order to remedy this lack of ability I suggest that the Dramatic Society and the Musical Clubs join their ranks to produce a truly great opera, a magnificent spectacle, a monumentous work."
- "Mr. Speaker, this last weekend on my return to my home district, the 20th Congressional District of Texas. Bexar County, Tex., also a very historical spot, the county of Bexar, or, as it is pronounced in Spanish, "Behar," has been the scene of some of the most monumentous and historical events in the history of our country."
- "He kept them to himself, however, and contented himself with remarking to the carpenter that he had never met with a more "monumentous episode.""
- "In 1935, a young LTJG Cecil H. Coggins, while working for the ONI, made a monumentous intelligence discovery."
Etymology
From monument + -ous. First attested in 1889, probably a new formation, comparable with Latin monumentosum, Portuguese monumentoso (“monumental”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more monumentous (comparative)
most monumentous (superlative)