Monstrous

/ˈmɑnstɹəs/ · adjective

Meaning

Hideous or frightful..

Definitions by Sense

1. Hideous or frightful.
2. Enormously large.
3. Freakish or grotesque.
4. Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
5. (obsolete) Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical.
6. (offensive, derogatory) Disabled; crippled. (A severe slur used to describe persons with disabilities.)

Example Sentences

So bad a death argues a monstrous life.

a monstrous height

The chiding billovv ſeemes to pelt the cloudes, / The vvinde ſhak'd ſurge, vvith high and monſtrous mayne, / Seemes to caſt vvater, on the burning Beare, […]

Possibly monster pumpkins may become still more monstrous by the shoots being ringed, and so may other vegetables and fruits where quality is of less importance than mere size.

Mr. Burns is similarly perfectly cast as a heartless capitalist willing to do anything for a quick buck, even if it means endangering the lives of those around him and Marge elegantly rounds out the main cast as a good, pure-hearted and overly indulgent woman who sees the big, good heart (literally and metaphorically) of a monstrous man-brute.

The irregular and monstrous births

He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love […] is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.

Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.

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• more monstrous
• most monstrous

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