Monumentous

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    monumental; very large or important

    "... commencing a monumentous catalogue of the Hemiptera of the world ..."

  2. 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.""

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"... commencing a monumentous catalogue of the Hemiptera of the world ..."

Etymology

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

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