monstrous
frightful 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.
extremely; exceedingly; very.
Origin of monstrous
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Other words for monstrous
Other words from monstrous
- mon·strous·ly, adverb
- mon·strous·ness, noun
Words Nearby monstrous
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How to use monstrous in a sentence
Twenty-two-year-old wunderkind Luka Dončić started his Olympic career with a monstrous performance, one rarely witnessed in international basketball.
Enter Epstein, an old business contact of her father’s, whose short-lived romance with Maxwell gave way to a very different, allegedly monstrous kind of mutually beneficial arrangement.
Far too often, traditional narrative storytelling has worked to further marginalize people who are already marginalized in society by framing aspects of their identities as monstrous, inherently evil, or Other.
The more layers of this scam you peel back, the more monstrous it looks.
The hidden scam behind Tucker Carlson and the right’s ‘replacement’ game | Greg Sargent | April 23, 2021 | Washington PostOne does not last weeks on this monstrous regimen without spiritual help.
Gene Weingarten: Behold, the worst diet of all time | Gene Weingarten | April 15, 2021 | Washington Post
“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 | THE DAILY BEASTAll 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 | THE DAILY BEASTEven Godzilla, the ugliest star attraction of them all, is bigger than ever, both at the box office and in sheer monstrous height.
Can Tarzan of the Apes Survive in a Post-Colonial World? | Ted Gioia | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“In the camp no-one knows themselves,” muses the monstrous commandant.
And decency is our great, guiding strength as we face such monstrous foes as ISIS.
From ISIS Videos to JLaw Nudes, When Is Looking Abetting Evil? | Michael Daly | September 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe was in a dream of oily odours and monstrous iron constructions, dominated by the grand foreman: and Edwin was in the dream.
Hilda Lessways | Arnold BennettTressan was monstrous ill-at-ease, and his face lost a good deal of its habitual plethora of colour.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniThere are great and wonderful works: a variety of beasts, and of all living things, and the monstrous creatures of whales.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousThe little name sounded so incongruous; it did not suit the big gaunt woman who had almost a touch of the monstrous in her.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodThe one thing that loomed big in my mind's eye was the monstrous injustice of the accusation.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair
British Dictionary definitions for monstrous
/ (ˈmɒnstrəs) /
abnormal, hideous, or unnatural in size, character, etc
(of plants and animals) abnormal in structure
outrageous, atrocious, or shocking: it is monstrous how badly he is treated
huge: a monstrous fire
of, relating to, or resembling a monster
Derived forms of monstrous
- monstrously, adverb
- monstrousness, noun
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