Adjective

(en adjective)

In the manner of a monument.

Large, grand and imposing. Fitting to be a monument to someone or something.

Taking a great amount of time and effort to complete.

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, author= , title=Well-connected Brains , volume=100, issue=2, page=171 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}

"a monumental task"

Adjective

(er)

First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good.

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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

Grand; magnificent; august; stately.

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(lb) Haughty.

*1858 , (Julia Kavanagh), Adèle, a Tale: Volume 2 (p.235):

*:A remark which Isabella received with a superb curl of the lip, but at the same time, and to her brother's infinite relief, she walked away.