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[ mon-struhs ] / ˈmɒn strəs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR monstrous ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivefrightful or hideous, especially in appearance; extremely ugly. shocking or revolting; outrageous: monstrous cruelty. extraordinarily great; huge; immense: a monstrous building. deviating grotesquely from the natural or normal form or type. having the nature or appearance of a fabulous monster. adverbextremely; exceedingly; very. Origin of monstrousFirst recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Latin word mōnstrōsus. See monster, -ous SYNONYMS FOR monstrous1, 2 horrible, atrocious. SEE SYNONYMS FOR monstrous ON THESAURUS.COM synonym study for monstrous3. See gigantic. OTHER WORDS FROM monstrousmon·strous·ly, adverbmon·strous·ness, nounWords nearby monstrousmonstera, monstering, monster truck, monstrance, monstrosity, monstrous, mons veneris, Mont., Montadale, montage, Montagnais Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for monstrous“You know, I never had a monstrous ego,” Mailer confides to a friend in l987. Mailer’s Letters Pack a Punch and a Surprising Degree of Sweetness|Ronald K. Fried|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST All I had in those days was a monstrous lack of ego which therefore required huge injections of actorly ego and misled people. Mailer’s Letters Pack a Punch and a Surprising Degree of Sweetness|Ronald K. Fried|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST “In the camp no-one knows themselves,” muses the monstrous commandant. How Hitch & Amis Discovered Evil In My House|Peter Foges|September 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST Now, what they learned on U.S. streets with the monstrous MS-13 and MS-18 has sent children fleeing north. The Deported L.A. Gangs Behind This Border Kid Crisis|Michael Daly|July 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For 27 years, the 105 floors of Ryugyong Hotel, a monstrous three-winged, glass-and-concrete pyramid, have gone unused. Nobody’s Home at the Hermit Kingdom’s Ghost Hotel|Nina Strochlic|May 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST Upon this shall come a roaring lion dreadful for his monstrous cruelty. Old English Chronicles|Various Not one of the witnesses, placed under such solemn responsibilities, ‘shrinks from repeating the monstrous story.’ The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism|A. Leah Underhill To keep silence about so monstrous a wrong as this merely because the subject is a tabooed one was not possible to Brieux. Three Plays by Brieux|Eugne Brieux It looked more than ever like a monstrous, deadly centipede. I am planted and rooted in you, monstrous mother that you are. The Far Horizon|Lucas Malet
British Dictionary definitions for monstrous
adjectiveabnormal, hideous, or unnatural in size, character, etc (of plants and animals) abnormal in structure outrageous, atrocious, or shockingit is monstrous how badly he is treated hugea monstrous fire of, relating to, or resembling a monster Derived forms of monstrousmonstrously, adverbmonstrousness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to monstrousatrocious, freakish, obscene, preposterous, horrendous, dreadful, inhuman, grotesque, horrible, hideous, vicious, odious, heinous, gruesome, frightful, infamous, egregious, terrible, outrageous, cruel |