monstrous[adjective]Synonyms:- unnatural, fiendish, freakish, frightful, grotesque, gruesome, hideous, horrible
- outrageous, diabolical, disgraceful, foul, inhuman, intolerable, scandalous, shocking
- huge, colossal, enormous, immense, mammoth, massive, prodigious, stupendous, tremendous
Contrasted words: mean, petty, picayune, poky, small-time
Related Words: grandiose,
impressive,
magnificent,
showy,
splendid,
superb,
colossal,
enormous,
huge,
immense,
mammoth,
vast,
glaring,
rank,
fateful,
ominous,
portentous,
flagitious,
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mon‧strous /ˈmɒnstrəs $ ˈmɑːn-/
adjective1. very wrong, immoral, or unfair:
It’s monstrous to charge that much for a hotel room. Such monstrous injustice is hard to understand.2. unusually large:
a monstrous nose3. unnatural or ugly and frightening
Synonym : hideous:
a monstrous shadow on the stairs—monstrously adverb:
He was ugly and monstrously fat. It was monstrously unfair. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲