Monstrous is an adjective that describes something gross or shocking. It can refer to the size, shape, or general look of something. If your face or body is monstrous, it's misshapen and horrifying to look at.
Marvelous; strange.
Adjective S.
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"
Adjective S.
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"
Adjective S.
abnormally large
a.
Marvelous; strange.
a.
Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly
from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth.
a.
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.
a.
Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or
wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful.
a.
Abounding in monsters.
adv.
Exceedingly; very; very much.
Monstrous
He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.3.
So bad a death argues a monstrous life.5.
Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.
Monstrous
And will be monstrous witty on the poor.
Marvelous; strange.
Exceedingly; very; very much.
Usage Examples
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
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Other Usage ExamplesWhat is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
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