monumentally

American

[mahn-yuh-ment-uh-lee] / ˌmɑn yəˈmɛnt ə li /

adverb

in a way or to a degree that is monumental; extraordinarily or immensely.

Example Sentences

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CEOs make decisions every day; any one decision is not as monumentally important as it is for an artist preparing for a new album or to perform in a movie.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

After getting outclassed for an hour and trailing 1-0 when by rights it should have been two or three, how did Scotland win this monumentally befuddling World Cup qualifier 3-1?

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2025

The Supreme Court therefore faces a decision with monumentally high stakes.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2025

He’s alive and dead, serious and joking, monumentally stupid and a stable genius, all at the same time.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2025

Appalachian Trail maps are so monumentally useless that I had long since given up using them.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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