1. formed from a single large block of stone
2. large, powerful, and intractably indivisible and uniform

Examples

• The ancient temple was carved from a monolithic piece of granite.
• Easter Island is famous for its monolithic stone statues.
• The company’s monolithic structure made it difficult to implement changes.
• Critics described the government as a monolithic bureaucracy.
• The monolithic concrete building dominated the skyline.
• She challenged the monolithic thinking of the organization.
• The monolithic pillar stood thirty feet tall.