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Maverick88 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Could anyone help me

to find out what the oppisite word for monolithic is? I thought of polylithic but according to what I found out this word doesn't exist as such.
  

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Word thesaurus comes up with 'small' as the antonym for monolithic. Monolithic means colossal, huge, massive, impressively large... I can see why you thought mono/poly but in monolithic the mono does not seem to mean one/single in the usual sense of mono, therefore poly (multi/many) is not its opposite.

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  • Word thesaurus comes up with 'small' as the antonym for monolithic.
  • Monolithic means colossal, huge, massive, impressively large...
  • I can see why you thought mono/poly but in monolithic the mono does not seem to mean one/single in the usual sense of mono, therefore poly (multi/many) is not its opposite.
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Word thesaurus comes up with 'small' as the antonym for monolithic. Monolithic means colossal, huge, massive, impressively large...

I can see why you thought mono/poly but in monolithic the mono does not seem to mean one/single in the usual sense of mono, therefore poly (multi/many) is not its opposite.
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According to Webster:
2 a : cast as a single piece <a monolithic concrete wall> b : formed or composed of material without joints or seams <a monolithic floor covering> <a monolithic furnace lining> c : consisting of or constituting a single unit
3 a : constituting a massive undifferentiated and
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Dear Maverick,

A «monolith» is a large single stone.

The other meanings are therefore metaphorical.

Kind regards,
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