monumentous

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. monumental; very large or important
    — ... commencing a monumentous catalogue of the Hemiptera of the world ...
  2. memorable or remarkable; worthy of recording or memorializing.
    — He kept them to himself, however, and contented himself with remarking to the carpenter that he had never met with a more "monumentous episode."

词形变化

more monumentous comparative most monumentous superlative

词源

From monument + -ous. First attested in 1889, probably a new formation, comparable with Latin monumentosum, Portuguese monumentoso (“monumental”).
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