Meaning & use
Monolithically
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In a way that treats something as a single, uniform, undivided whole, without internal variation.
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Critics argue the media too often portrays the region monolithically, ignoring its diversity.
The old system was built monolithically, making it hard to update any single part.
A note on using this word
Frequently used in software engineering to contrast a single, tightly coupled system with a modular one.
Words with a similar meaning
uniformlyhomogeneously
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Words with an opposite meaning
diversely
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