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Definition: Monstrously |
MonstrouslyAdverb1. In a hideous manner; "her face was hideously disfigured after the accident". 2. In a terribly evil manner; "the child was heinously murdered". 3. In a grotesque manner; "behind the house lay two nude figures grotesquely bald, with deliberate knife-slashes marking their bodies". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "monstrously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: MonstrouslySynonyms: grotesquely (adv), heinously (adv), hideously (adv), horridly (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greatness | Immoderately, monstrously, preposterously, inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion, with a vengeance. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Monstrously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 96.88% of the time. "Monstrously" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 96.88% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
monstrously | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "monstrously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | obrovitì, nestvùrnì. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | monstruexse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | ungeheuer (atrocious, colossal, dreadful, egregious, egregiously, enormous, enormously, giant, huge, hugely, immense, immensely, infinitely, inordinate, mammoth, monster, monsters, monstrosities, monstrous, monumental, ogre, ogress, outrageous, prodigious, prodigiously, terror, tremendous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rendkívülien (extraordinarily, monstrous), irtózatosan (awful, awfully, dreadfully, fiendishly), gyalázatosan (atrociously, ignominiously, outrageously), óriási módon (hugely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onstrouslymay monstruos (awful, colossal, huge, monster, monstrous, shocking, strapping, unnatural), ca un monstru. (various references) canavarca (ruffianly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "monstrously" (pronounced 'Mon"strous*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-m-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: monstrous. | |
-3 letters: nostrums, sunrooms. | |
-4 letters: moutons, nostrum, ormolus, stolons, sunroom, unmoors, unroots. | |
-5 letters: morons, mostly, motors, moults, mounts, mourns, mouton, mutons, mysost, ormolu, osmols, osmous, ostomy, roosts, rousts, smolts, snools, snoots, snooty, snorts, snouts, snouty, solons, solums, sotols, sourly, stolon, stools, storms, stormy, stours, stoury, stroys, strums, stylus, sultry, torous, torsos, toyons, tumors, tussor. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 6E 73 74 72 6F 75 73 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- -. ... - .-. --- ..- ... .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01101110 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o n s t r o u s l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 006E 0073 0074 0072 006F 0075 0073 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4781808586848187857891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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