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monumental

monumental, colossal

adjective moh-noo-mahn-TAL Rare
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Usage Note

Monumental can describe physical scale (a monumental building) or, colloquially, something impressively large or bad — une erreur monumentale is a colossal mistake. The masculine plural is monumentaux, following the common -al → -aux pattern. The feminine form is monumentale.

Examples

"Ils ont commis une erreur monumentale."

Natural Translation

They made a monumental mistake.

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