Monstrous
['mɒnstrəs] or ['mɑnstrəs]
Definition
(a.) Marvelous; strange.
(a.) Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth.
(a.) Extraordinary in a way to excite wonder, dislike, apprehension, etc.; -- said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.; as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a monstrous story.
(a.) Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful.
(a.) Abounding in monsters.
(adv.) Exceedingly; very; very much.
Editor: Natasha
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Unnatural, preternatural, abnormal, prodigious.[2]. Huge, enormous, immense, vast, colossal, stupendous, extraordinary, Cyclopean, Herculean.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prodigious, portentous, marvellous, deformed, abnormal, hideous, preposterous,intolerable
ANT:Ordinary, familiar, unnoticeable, fair, comely, shapely, regular, natural,reasonable, just
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Examples
- I say that these monstrous laws of yours will bring a curse upon the land--God will not let such wickedness endure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Here Darwin observed crabs of monstrous size, with a structure which ena bled them to open the cocoanuts. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Monstrous nice girl, 'pon my honour, though, Osborne, he was good enough to add. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- An undue love of Self leads to the most monstrous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The glyptodon was a monstrous South American armadillo, and a human skeleton has been found by Roth buried beneath its huge tortoise-like shell. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That is the monstrous proposition which you are driven to assert, if you attempt to associate the disappearance of the Moonstone with Franklin Blake. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In short, not altogether liking the words my dear, as they had been applied to me by her husband, she thought it monstrous vulgar! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- At this, the charity-boy looked monstrous fierce; and said that Oliver would want one before long, if he cut jokes with his superiors in that way. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Poor bewildered statesmen, unused to any notion of change, have seen the national life grow to a monstrous confusion and sprout monstrous evils by the way. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And of the monstrous ineffectiveness of the Roman voting system we have already written. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And you are monstrous top-heavy! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Yours is the monstrous pride which counterfeits humility. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Monstrous delusions! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She was face to face with a monstrous difficulty, and she resolved to get free of it by postponement. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Readers, can you conceive anything half so monstrous, half so ruinous to black-pudding men, so destructive to the rising generation? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Good gracious-- Mr. Welland gasped, as if a second reading had been necessary to bring the monstrous absurdity of the thing home to him. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I am monstrous glad of it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- We cannot wait in politics for any completed theoretical discussion of its method: it is a monstrous demand. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- An impressive silence broods over the monstrous structure where such multitudes of men and women were wont to assemble in other days. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Very few people have a grip like Gabriel--the prints of his monstrous fingers, two inches deep, are to be seen in that rock to-day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- No: such a martyrdom would be monstrous. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They run from the absurd to the monstrous. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Lucy is monstrous pretty, and so good humoured and agreeable! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It is monstrous--as if you had had a vision of Hades in your childhood, like the boy in the legend. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Tammany is not a freak, a strange and monstrous excrescence. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It's quite monstrous that she should forget herself and her station in that way. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- One reads in vain through the monstrous accumulations of Napoleonic literature for a single record of self-forgetfulness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I turned again in time to see the gate of a nearby cage thrown open and three monstrous white apes spring into the arena. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I would not brawl in the presence of death, but I can assure you that if I were a younger man your monstrous conduct would not pass with impunity. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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