'Monstrous' definitions:
Definition of 'monstrous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Abnormally large
adjective
Shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit" [syn: atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous]
adjective
Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous; "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes" [syn: grotesque, monstrous]
Definition of 'Monstrous'
From: GCIDE
- Monstrous \Mon"strous\ (m[o^]n"str[u^]s), a. [OE. monstruous, F. monstrueux, fr. L. monstruosus, fr. monstrum. See Monster.]
- 1. Marvelous; strange. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love . . . is unnatural and monstrous in his affections. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful. [1913 Webster]
- So bad a death argues a monstrous life. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Abounding in monsters. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Monstrous'
From: GCIDE
- Monstrous \Mon"strous\, adv. Exceedingly; very; very much. "A monstrous thick oil on the top." --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- And will be monstrous witty on the poor. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'monstrous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a bit much,
- abandoned,
- abject,
- abominable,
- absurd,
- abysmal,
- amplitudinous,
- appalling,
- arrant,
- astronomic,
- astronomical,
- Atlantean,
- atrocious,
- awesome,
- awful,
- awfully,
- bad,
- bandy,
- bandy-legged,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- baroque,
- base,
- beastly,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- beyond belief,
- big,
- bizarre,
- black,
- blamable,
- blameworthy,
- blemished,
- bloated,
- boundless,
- bowlegged,
- Brobdingnagian,
- brutal,
- brutish,
- bulky,
- cacogenic,
- cheesy,
- club-footed,
- cockamamie,
- colossal,
- contemptible,
- cosmic,
- cracking,
- crazy,
- criminal,
- cruel,
- crummy,
- crying,
- Cyclopean,
- damnable,
- dark,
- debased,
- defaced,
- deformed,
- degraded,
- deplorable,
- depraved,
- desperate,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- dire,
- dirty,
- disfigured,
- disgraceful,
- disgusting,
- dreadful,
- dwarfed,
- egregious,
- elephantine,
- enormous,
- epic,
- evil,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- execrable,
- exorbitant,
- extensive,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- extremely,
- fabulous,
- fancy,
- fantastic,
- fateful,
- fetid,
- fiendish,
- filthy,
- flagitious,
- flagrant,
- flatfooted,
- foolish,
- foul,
- freak,
- freakish,
- frightful,
- fulsome,
- galactic,
- Gargantuan,
- gargantuan,
- gargoylish,
- ghoulish,
- giant,
- giantlike,
- gigantic,
- glaring,
- gluttonous,
- grandiose,
- grave,
- grievous,
- grisly,
- gross,
- grotesque,
- gruesome,
- hateful,
- heinous,
- hellish,
- Herculean,
- heroic,
- hideous,
- high,
- high-flown,
- Homeric,
- horrendous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- horrific,
- horrifying,
- huge,
- hyperbolic,
- hypertrophied,
- ill-made,
- ill-proportioned,
- ill-shaped,
- immeasurable,
- immense,
- immoderate,
- impressive,
- improper,
- incontinent,
- incredible,
- infamous,
- infinite,
- inhuman,
- iniquitous,
- inordinate,
- insensitive,
- intemperate,
- jumbo,
- king-size,
- knavish,
- knock-kneed,
- lamentable,
- large,
- laughable,
- little,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- low,
- low-down,
- ludicrous,
- lumpen,
- magnificent,
- malformed,
- mammoth,
- mangy,
- marred,
- massive,
- massy,
- mean,
- measly,
- merciless,
- mightily,
- mighty,
- misbegotten,
- miserable,
- misproportioned,
- misshapen,
- monster,
- monumental,
- mortal,
- mountainous,
- mutilated,
- nasty,
- naughty,
- nauseating,
- nauseous,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- nonsensical,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- ominous,
- out of bounds,
- out of shape,
- out of sight,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- outsize,
- overbig,
- overdeveloped,
- overgreat,
- overgrown,
- overlarge,
- overmuch,
- overweening,
- paltry,
- peccant,
- petty,
- pigeon-toed,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poky,
- poor,
- poppycockish,
- portentous,
- preposterous,
- prodigious,
- profound,
- pug-nosed,
- rachitic,
- rank,
- rattling,
- regrettable,
- repellent,
- reprehensible,
- reprobate,
- reptilian,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- rickety,
- ridiculous,
- rococo,
- rotten,
- ruthless,
- sad,
- savage,
- scabby,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- shameless,
- shapeless,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- showy,
- simous,
- sinful,
- sizable,
- small,
- snapping,
- snub-nosed,
- sordid,
- spacious,
- splendid,
- squalid,
- steep,
- stiff,
- stumpy,
- stupendous,
- superb,
- swaybacked,
- talipedic,
- teratic,
- teratogenic,
- teratoid,
- terrible,
- titanic,
- too bad,
- too much,
- towering,
- tremendous,
- truncated,
- ugly,
- unbridled,
- unclean,
- unconscionable,
- undue,
- unforgivable,
- unmentionable,
- unpardonable,
- unreasonable,
- unrestrained,
- unshapely,
- unspeakable,
- unworthy,
- vast,
- vicious,
- vile,
- villainous,
- voluminous,
- weighty,
- weird,
- wicked,
- wild,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- wrong