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monstrousmon‧strous /ˈmɒnstrəs $ ˈmɑːn-/ adjective - a monstrous 400-pound grizzly bear
- a monstrous lie
- A monstrous form lay on it, covered by sheeting.
- A monstrous pain crackling along the frozen nerves to leave her dry crying, wordless sobs of abandonment.
- Carr has created a monstrous villain, a female killer of children.
- Frequently they were outspoken wives, who were considered monstrous shrews or unnatural traitors to their husbands.
- In his own colorful expression, he had laid a monstrous egg.
- In the dark hours after breakfast it was some way of controlling the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life.
- She throws monstrous tantrums if her parents try to leave her at daycare or with a baby-sitter.
- The plan called for five dams and reservoirs, all of them of monstrous size.
► It’s monstrous It’s monstrous to charge that much for a hotel room. 1very wrong, immoral, or unfair: It’s monstrous to charge that much for a hotel room. Such monstrous injustice is hard to understand.2unusually large: a monstrous nose3unnatural or ugly and frightening SYN hideous: a monstrous shadow on the stairs—monstrously adverb: He was ugly and monstrously fat. It was monstrously unfair. |