monstrosity
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Monstrosity \Mon*stros"i*ty\ (m[o^]n*str[o^]s"[i^]*t[y^]), n.;
pl. {Monstrosities} (m[o^]n*str[o^]s"[i^]*t[i^]z). [Cf. F.
monstruosit['e]. See {Monstrous}.]
The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of
nature; that which is monstrous; a monster. --South.
[1913 Webster]
A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the
immutability of a species. --Adanson
(Trans.).
[1913 Webster]
from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
monstrosity
1. n. A ridiculously {elephantine} program or system, esp. one that is
buggy or only marginally functional.
2. adj. The quality of being monstrous (see the section called
"Overgeneralization" in the discussion of jargonification). See also
{baroque}.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
111 Moby Thesaurus words for "monstrosity":
aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, abortion,
absurdity, amorphism, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, anticness,
awfulness, baboon, bag, barbarity, bizarreness, bizarrerie,
blemish, blot, bowlegs, camelback, cleft palate, clubfoot,
crookback, curiousness, defacement, deformation, deformity,
derangement, deviation, difference, disfigurement, divergence, dog,
dreadfulness, eccentricity, enormity, enormousness, erraticism,
eyesore, fantasticality, fiendishness, flatfoot, freak,
freak of nature, freakishness, fright, frightfulness, gargoyle,
ghoulishness, grotesqueness, grotesquerie, hag, harelip, harridan,
heinousness, hellishness, heteromorphism, hideousness,
horribleness, horridness, horror, hugeness, humpback, hunchback,
immensity, inferiority, irregularity, knock-knee, kyphosis,
lordosis, malconformation, malformation, mess, miscreation,
misproportion, misshape, monster, monstrousness, mutilation,
no beauty, oddity, outlandishness, peculiarity, prodigiousness,
quaintness, queerness, scarecrow, sight, singularity, splayfoot,
strangeness, stupendousness, subnormality, superiority, swayback,
talipes, teratism, teratology, torticollis, tremendousness,
truncation, ugly duckling, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, valgus,
vastness, weirdness, witch, wryneck
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