monstrous
English
Etymology
From Middle English monstrous, from Old French monstrueuse, monstrüos, from Latin mōnstrōsus. Compare monstruous.
Adjective
monstrous (comparative more monstrous, superlative most monstrous)
- Hideous or frightful.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- Enormously large.
- a monstrous height
- a monstrous ox
- Freakish or grotesque.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Locke
- a monstrous birth
- (Can we date this quote?) Jeremy Taylor
- He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love […] is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Locke
- Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- (obsolete) Marvellous; strange.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Translations
hideous or frightful
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enormously large
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freakish or grotesque
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of, or relating to a mythical monster
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Middle English
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