monumentalizes
Renders permanently significant
Monumentalizes means to make something into a monument or to treat it as worthy of commemoration.
The word often carries a critical edge, suggesting that something is being elevated beyond its due importance or frozen in an overly grand form: The statue monumentalizes a controversial figure.
To monumentalize is to enshrine—sometimes appropriately, sometimes not.
Make lastingly famous
- eternalizeMake everlasting
- perpetuateKeep something going indefinitely
- canonizeFormally declare sainthood
- apotheosizeMake into a god
venerate · lionize · deify · exalt · heroize · mythologize · sanctify · elevate
immortalize
Make lastingly famous
- eternalizeMake everlasting
- perpetuateKeep something going indefinitely
- canonizeFormally declare sainthood
apotheosize · venerate · lionize · deify · exalt · heroize · mythologize · sanctify · elevate · aggrandize
memorialize
Honor through lasting tribute
plaque · statue · landmark · inscription · memorial · remembrance · honoring · ceremony · legacy · veterans
majestic
Impressively dignified and beautiful
- imposingImpressively grand in scale
- colossalExtremely large in scale
- monolithicMassive and undifferentiated
stately · grandiose · epic · sublime · magnificent · towering · palatial · imperial · regal · august
monumentalizesminimizes
Reduces to smallest extent
diminishes · trivializes · belittles · downplays · reduces
monumentalizesforgets
Loses from memory
erases · obliterates · buries · suppresses · ignores