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Definition of Monstrous

1. Adjective. Abnormally large.

2. Adjective. Shockingly brutal or cruel. "No excess was too monstrous for them to commit"

3. Adjective. Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous. "Twisted into monstrous shapes"

Definition of Monstrous

1. a. Marvelous; strange.

2. adv. Exceedingly; very; very much.

Definition of Monstrous

1. Adjective. hideous or frightful ¹

2. Adjective. enormously large ¹

3. Adjective. freakish or grotesque ¹

4. Adjective. of, or relating to a mythical monster ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Monstrous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monstrous

monsterless monsterlet monsterlike monsterous monsterously monsters monstery monstrance monstrances monstration

monstre monstres monstrose monstrosities monstrosity monstrous (current term) monstrously monstrousness monstrousnesses monstruosities

monstruosity monstruous mont montadale montadales montage montaged montages montaging montagnard

Literary usage of Monstrous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Othello: A Tragedy in Five Acts by William Shakespeare, Tommaso Salvini, James Henry Mapleson (1876)
"... too, That thinks men honest that but seem to be so; I have't—it is engendered:—Hell and night Hust bring this monstrous birth to the world's light. ..."

2. Philosophical Transactions by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1801)
"V. Account of a monstrous Lamb. In a Letter from Mr. Anthony Carlisle, ... I AM much indebted to you for the privilege of inspecting the monstrous lamb sent ..."

3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... of him who rear'd 400 The monstrous, fell Chimera, plague to man. And Ajax, he of O'ileus, leapt forth, On Cleobulus, where amid the throng He stumbled ..."

4. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"with the stones on the outside; and a monstrous animal, as tall as a grenadier, with the head of a rabbit, a tail as big as a bedpost, hopping along at the ..."

5. Belgium: A Personal Narrative by Brand Whitlock (1919)
"That vague, unnamed thing was fear, a monstrous, cruel, odious fear under the dominion of which men felt all the sensations that are ascribed to those who ..."

6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(25) Their monstrous herds of cattle, less remarkable indeed for their beauty than for their utility,(26) formed the principal object of their wealth. ..."

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