Definitions for monstrous

monstrous mon·strous

Spelling: [mon-struh s]
IPA: /ˈmɒn strəs/

Monstrous is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 298 anagrams from letters in monstrous (mnoorsstu).

Definitions for monstrous

adverb

  1. extremely; exceedingly; very.

adjective

  1. frightful or hideous, especially in appearance; extremely ugly.
  2. shocking or revolting; outrageous:
  3. extraordinarily great; huge; immense:
  4. deviating grotesquely from the natural or normal form or type.
  5. having the nature or appearance of a fabulous monster.

Origin of monstrous

First recorded in 1350-1400; Middle English word from Latin word mōnstrōsus. See monster, -ous

Examples for monstrous

I do know that you did it for love of me, monstrous though it sounds to say so.

She thinks it monstrous because she has eyes in her head; she thinks it monstrous because it is monstrous.

All I had in those days was a monstrous lack of ego which therefore required huge injections of actorly ego and misled people.

A non-loving Universal Thought was too monstrous a concept to entertain.

His design then appeared to him insane, monstrous, polluting.

“In the camp no-one knows themselves,” muses the monstrous commandant.

Now, what they learned on U.S. streets with the monstrous MS-13 and MS-18 has sent children fleeing north.

For 27 years, the 105 floors of Ryugyong Hotel, a monstrous three-winged, glass-and-concrete pyramid, have gone unused.

“You know, I never had a monstrous ego,” Mailer confides to a friend in l987.

They had sent this monstrous caricature of the most beautiful thing in the world.

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