Monstrous

Definition: Monstrous

Monstrous

Adjective

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".

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "monstrous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Monstrous

Distortion

Adjective: distorted; Verb: out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump, deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned, ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy; (short); gaunt; (thin); bloated; scalene; simous; taliped, talipedic.

Greatness

Vast, immense, enormous, extreme; inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown; towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible; marvelous.

Ridiculousness

Extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic.

Size

Huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite.

Ugliness

Misshapen, misproportioned; monstrous; gaunt; (thin); dumpy; (short); curtailed of its fair proportions; ill-made, ill-shaped, ill-proportioned; crooked; (distorted); hard featured, hard visaged; ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored; ill-looking; unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing.

Unconformity

Unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful; unexpected, unaccountable; outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural; denaturalized.

Vulgarity

Particular; affected; meretricious; extravagant, monstrous, horrid; shocking; (painful).

Wonder

Monstrous, prodigious, stupendous, marvelous; inconceivable, incredible; inimaginable, unimaginable; strange; (uncommon); passing strange.

Crosswords: Monstrous

Monstrous big (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Ashamed of his monstrous form the beast concealed himself inside his castle, with a magic mirror as his only window to the outside world (Beauty and the Beast; writing credit: Roger Allers; Kelly Asbury)

It has to be fed constantly - or it will reach out its magnetic arm and grab at anything within its reach and kill it. It's monstrous, Stewart, monstrous (The Magnetic Monster; writing credit: Curt Siodmak; Ivan Tors)

A monstrous giant of infamous repute whom I intend to encounter (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman)

Anything less would be monstrous. (Reversal of Fortune; writing credit: Nicholas Kazan)

Monstrous Monster (1966)

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Books

• A Monstrous Regiment of Women (reference)

• Animal Arms: Ultimate Size & Shape Training for Building Monstrous Arm Muscles (reference)

• Monstrous Compendium Annual (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Accessory, No 2173) (reference)

• Monstrous Manual (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition) (reference)

• Monstrous Possibility: An Invitation to Literary Politics (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Monstrous (reference)

• Nightmare Manor: Monstrous Music from Beyond (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Disney/Pixar Monsters Inc. Mike's Monstrous Adventure (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Astronomers are concluding that monstrous black holes weren't simply born big but instead ... Credit: NASA.

A monstrous black hole's rude table manners include blowing huge bubbles of hot gas into ... Credit: NASA.

... These monstrous heads too, are philosophers: / J. Collier inv. T. Sanders sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Hugh oil gusher at Mooringsport, La. A monstrous column of roaring flame, Star Oil Co. Loucke no. 3, on fire since Aug. 7, 1913 ... Credit: Library of Congress.

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The paw and the talon find a monstrous pleasure in the quivering of the animal imprisoned in their grasp

His recent monstrous reveries came thronging into his memory

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Expressions using "monstrous": grotesque monstrous unnatural ♦ monstrous invention. Additional references.

Ending with "monstrous": m-monstrous, non-monstrous.

Albanian

tmerrues (appalling, awe inspiring, awesome, deterrent, dreadful, fearful, grisly, horrific, lurid, terrifying), përbindëshor, i stërmadh (huge, monster, prodigious), i përçudnuar (horrible), i llahtarshëm (dire, horrific, terrifying, tremendous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فظيع (abominable, atrocious, detestable, flagrant, gross, hideous, horrible, horrid, outrageous, shocking, terrible, ugly), ‏مشوه الخلقة, ‏هولي, ‏هائل (astronomic, astronomical, awful, colossal, enormous, formidable, gargantuan, gigantesque, hugely, immense, massive, mighty, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, portentous, prodigious, rip roaring, stupendous, terrific, thumping, thundering, titanic, towering, tremendous, whopping, wicked, wide), ‏قبيح (disgusting, fiend, hideous, homely, odious, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, ugly, unattractive, unsightly), ‏عالي (hard to reach, imposing, standard, supreme, tall), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏رهيب (bloodcurdling, bloody, chilly, dire, dreadful, fearful, fierce, grisly, gruesome, hairy, holy, horrible, horrific, lurid, macabre, morbid, nightmarish, redoubtable, smashing, super, terrible, wretched), ‏شنيع (atrocious, awful, crying, enormous, foul, ghastly, ghoulish, gruesome, heinous, hideous, nefarious, obnoxious, outrageous, ugly), ‏شاذ (aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bastard, bizarre, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, far fetched, freak, intriguing, irregular, moonstruck, odd, off beat, outlandish, preternatural, prodigious, queer, rogue, scatty, singular, stupendous, thumping, wild). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уродлив (crooked, gnomish, malformed, miscreated, misshapen, teratoid), скандален (flagrant, glaring, infamous, outrageous, scandalous, shameful, shocking), чудовищен (enormous, miscreated, monster, prodigious, unnatural), грамаден (enormous, exceeding, huge, immeasurable, immense, lumping, monster, mountainous, prodigious), невъзможен (bloody minded, impossible, infamous, miserable, perishing, pestilent, terrible, unchristian, unfeasible, unthinkable, villainous, wretched), зверски (atrocious, beastly, enormous), жесток (bestial, bloody, butcherly, cruel, dark, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, draconic, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, ghoulish, grinding, harsh, ill, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iron, mean, merciless, outrageous, sanguinary, shrewd, slashing, truculent, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, unrelenting), абсурден (absurd, farcical, hot, ludicrous, preposterous, ridiculous), безобразен (disgraceful, horrible, outrageous), изроден (degenerate, degraded, depraved, vestigial). (various references)

Chinese 

怪物似 , 怪异 (freaky, Oddities, oddity). (various references)

Czech

obrovitý, obludný (hideous, whopping), nestvùrný, kolosální (colossal, enormous, huge, monumental). (various references)

Dutch

monsterachtig. (various references)

Esperanto

monstra. (various references)

Farsi 

هیولا (Monster, Monstrosity), غول پیکر (Gargantuan, Gigantic). (various references)

French

monstrueux, monstre (monster), immense (monstrosities), gigantesque (mountainous), colossal, énorme (mountainous). (various references)

German

ungeheuer (atrocious, colossal, dreadful, egregious, egregiously, enormous, enormously, giant, huge, hugely, immense, immensely, infinitely, inordinate, mammoth, monster, monsters, monstrosities, monstrously, monumental, ogre, ogress, outrageous, prodigious, prodigiously, terror, tremendous). (various references)

Greek 

τραγελαφικός (grotesque), τερατώδησ (enormous). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפלצתי. (various references)

Hungarian

rettenetes (astounding, awful, dreadful, ghastly, hideous, horrible, horrific, monstrously, overwhelming, scary, terrible, terrific). (various references)

Italian

mostruoso (abominable, awful, dismal, dreary, enormous, hideous, horrible, Mega, monster, nasty, rotten, undelightful, vast). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

大それた (appalling, inordinate, outrageous). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

� いそれた (appalling, inordinate, outrageous). (various references)

Korean 

기괴망측한. (various references)

Manx

neughooghyssagh (alien, disaffectionate, foreign, supernatural), gloutagh (lumpy, massive, titanic), eajee (atrocious, filthy, ghastly, odious), beishtagh (beastly, bestial, brutish, monstrosity). (various references)

Pig Latin

onstrousmay.(various references)

Portuguese

monstruoso (bloodcurdling, miscreated, monster, unnatural). (various references)

Romanian

monstruos (awful, colossal, huge, monster, monstrously, shocking, strapping, unnatural), slut (ill-favored, ill-favoured, misshapen, mooncalf, ugly), oribil (abominable, detestable, gruesome, hideous, hideously, horrible, horribly, horrid, horrific), hidos (grisly, hideous, hideously, ugly, unsightly), groaznic (appalling, awful, awfully, baleful, desperate, dire, dreadful, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, groovy, gruesome, horrendous, horrent, horrible, horribly, horrid, howling, lousy, miserable, miserably, sad, scary, shocking, terrible, terribly, vile), enorm (astonishing, awful, colossal, enormous, frightful, huge, hugely, hugeous, immense, immensely, infinite, massive, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, terrible, thundering, tremendous, vast, whopping), cumplit (atrocious, cruel, dreadful, eerie, fell, ferocious, fierce, grievous, horrendous, mad, outrageous, severe, terrible, utter, uttermost), colosal (astronomic, astronomical, capitally, colossal, colossally, enormous, enormously, gigantic, grand, huge, jumbo, monster, mountain, ocean-wide, smashing, some, strapping, terrible, thundering, vast), atroce (atrocious, atrociously, heinous, heinously, outrageous), anormal (abnormal, abnormally, anomalous, prodigious). (various references)

Russian 

чудовищный (bloodcurdling, iniquitous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

monstruozan. (various references)

Spanish

monstruoso (callous, disastrous, freak, freakish, monster, outrageous). (various references)

Swedish

monstruösa, monstruös, vidunderlig (marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, portentous), ohygglig (appalling, atrocious, awful, horrible), oformlig (formless, shapeless), enorm (enormous, howling, huge, immense, monster, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, super-duper, supreme, terrific, thumping). (various references)

Turkish

korkunç (appalling, awesome, awful, cruel, desperate, dire, direful, disastrous, disgusting, dreadfull, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, gory, grim, grisly, gruesome, haircurling, hair-raiser, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, redoubtable, scary, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying), canavar gibi, azman (enormous, hybrid, overgrown). (various references)

Turkmen 

ganhor (monstrous person). (various references)

Ukrainian

величезний (astronomic, astronomical, babylonian, banging, decuman, dimensionless, enormous, flagrant, formidable, giantlike, grandiose, great, handsome, huge, immense, mighty, mountainous, overwhelming, prodigious, slapping, swingeing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, vasty, walloping, whacking, whaling), жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, damned, deadly, desperate, deuced, devilish, dire, direful, dreadful, eerie, eery, eldritch, enormous, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, flagrant, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, plaguy, scarey, scary, towering, tragic, tremendous, ungodly, wretched), потворний (frightful, malformed, miscreated, ugly). (various references)

Vietnamese 

t� n ác (atrocious, cruel, cruelly, foully), quái dị khổng l�" gớm guốc, kỳ quái (bizarre, eerie, eery, fantastic, miscreated), ho� n to� n sai. (various references)

Welsh

anferth (huge). (various references)

horribile, horribiles, horribili, horribilia, horribilis, horribilium, immanis, infandorum, ingens, inportuna, inportune, inportunis, vasthi. (various references)

mâzainyanãm. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "monstrous": monstrously, monstrousness, monstrousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Monstrous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: menstruum, monsterous, monstous, monstruos, montreaux, Montroig. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: nostrums, sunrooms.

-2 letters: moutons, nostrum, sunroom, unmoors, unroots.

-3 letters: morons, motors, mounts, mourns, mouton, mutons, osmous, roosts, rousts, snoots, snorts, snouts, storms, stours, strums, torous, torsos, tumors, tussor, unmoor, unroot.

-4 letters: monos, moons, moors, moots, morns, moron, morts, mosso, mosts, motor, mount, mourn, muons, musts, muton, nomos, norms, notum, ousts, rooms, roost, roots, rotos.

+1 letter: monestrous.

+2 letters: consortiums, monstrously, ostensorium.

+3 letters: consummators, noncustomers, opportunisms, positroniums, southernmost, timorousness.

+4 letters: misunderstood, monstrousness, numerologists.

+5 letters: immunosorbents, neuroblastomas, obstructionism, pococurantisms, precombustions, semiconductors, timorousnesses.