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mon·strous
 monstrous
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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective)
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
frighteningly hideous; frightfully ugly.
They screamed as they saw the monstrous creature emerge from the lagoon.- synonyms:
- hideous
- antonyms:
- lovely
- similar words:
- disgusting, dreadful, freaky, frightful, grotesque, gruesome, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, repugnant, repulsive, scary, ugly
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| definition 2: |
shocking, horrible, or atrocious.
He received the death penalty for the monstrous crime he committed.The guards' monstrous brutality provoked a riot in the prison.- synonyms:
- frightful, heinous, horrendous, lurid
- antonyms:
- admirable, good
- similar words:
- atrocious, awful, beastly, dreadful, egregious, flagrant, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrific, loathsome, outrageous, revolting, scandalous, shocking, terrible, ugly, vile
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| definition 3: |
extraordinarily or abnormally large; oversize; huge.
After the game, they ate a monstrous meal of burgers, pizza, and barbecued ribs.Cleaning up after the parade was a monstrous job for the sanitation department.- synonyms:
- colossal, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, huge, humongous, immense, mammoth, oversize, prodigious, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast
- antonyms:
- tiny
- similar words:
- elephantine, jumbo, large, mighty, monster
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| related words: |
big, brutal, brute, great, huge, mammoth, prodigious |
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| derivations: |
monstrously (adv.), monstrousness (n.) |
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