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Monstrous

//ˈmɑnstɹəs// adj

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Adjective

1
Hideous or frightful.
"So bad a death argues a monstrous life."
2
Enormously large.
"a monstrous height"
3
Freakish or grotesque.
"The irregular and monstrous births"
4
Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
"Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world."
5
Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical. obsolete
"The whole story was monstrous, and only worthy of the superstitious days in which it was written."

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6
Disabled; crippled. (A severe slur used to describe persons with disabilities.) derogatory, offensive

Adjective

1
distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous wordnet
2
shockingly brutal or cruel wordnet
3
abnormally large wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English monstrous, from Old French monstrueuse, monstrüos, from Latin mōnstrōsus. Compare monstruous. By surface analysis, monster + -ous.

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