monstrous

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Hideous or frightful.

   • So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
2. 2

   Enormously large.

   • a monstrous height
   • The chiding billovv ſeemes to pelt the cloudes, / The vvinde ſhak'd ſurge, vvith high and monſtrous mayne, / Seemes to caſt vvater, on the burning Beare, […]
   • Possibly monster pumpkins may become still more monstrous by the shoots being ringed, and so may other vegetables and fruits where quality is of less importance than mere size.
3. 3

   Freakish or grotesque.

   • The irregular and monstrous births
   • He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love […] is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.
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   1. 4

      Of, or relating to a mythical monster

      Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.

      • Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.
   2. 5

      Marvellous

      Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical.

      • The whole story was monstrous, and only worthy of the superstitious days in which it was written.
   3. 6

      Disabled

      Disabled; crippled. (A severe slur used to describe persons with disabilities.)

The neighborhood

• synonymmonstrous
• neighborghost
• neighborgigantic
• neighborchimeral
• neighbordraconic
• neighbordraconine
• neighbordragonish
• neighborgorgon
• neighborsatyric
• neighborsatyrlike