monstrous
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
monstrous
adj 1: abnormally large
2: 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}]
3: 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}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]
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2. Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from
the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous
birth. --Locke.
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He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom
he is bound to love . . . is unnatural and monstrous
in his affections. --Jer. Taylor.
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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.
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4. Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or
wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful.
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So bad a death argues a monstrous life. --Shak.
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5. Abounding in monsters. [R.]
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Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide
Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.
--Milton.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
311 Moby Thesaurus words for "monstrous":
Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
Homeric, a bit much, abandoned, abject, abominable, absurd,
abysmal, amplitudinous, appalling, arrant, astronomic,
astronomical, 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,
brutal, brutish, bulky, cacogenic, cheesy, club-footed, cockamamie,
colossal, contemptible, cosmic, cracking, crazy, criminal, cruel,
crummy, crying, 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, gargoylish,
ghoulish, giant, giantlike, gigantic, glaring, gluttonous,
grandiose, grave, grievous, grisly, gross, grotesque, gruesome,
hateful, heinous, hellish, heroic, hideous, high, high-flown,
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
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