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adjective

Monstrous adj.

Marvelous; strange. (Obs.)

Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. "He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love... is unnatural and monstrous in his affections."

Extraordinary in a way to excite wonder, dislike, apprehension, etc.; said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.; as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a monstrous story.

Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful. "So bad a death argues a monstrous life."

Abounding in monsters. (R.) "Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world."

adverb

Monstrous adv. Exceedingly; very; very much. "A monstrous thick oil on the top." "And will be monstrous witty on the poor."

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Etymology of 'Monstrous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Monstrous" Quotes from Famous Books

... it was with the Road Where The Silent Ones Walk, so it was with all those other monstrous things ... whole libraries had there been made upon this and upon that; and many a thousand million mouldered into the forgotten ...

— The Night Land • William Hope Hodgson

... possible case. Imagine a crime so glaring, so monstrous, so revolting, that the judges, who happen to be the least interested in the question, have been compelled to condemn the criminal to death. You probably imagine that, for example's sake, he will be executed while his crime is yet fresh in the ...

— The Roman Question • Edmond About

... even so and wherever our preferences may have lain, our treaties, our pledged word, the very reason of our existence, all forbade us to take part in the conflict. Then came the incredible ultimatum, the monstrous demand of which you know, which gave us twelve hours to choose between ruin and death or dishonour. As you also know, we did not need twelve hours to make our choice. This choice was no more than a cry of indignation and resolution, spontaneous, fierce and irresistible. We did not stay for a moment ...

— The Wrack of the Storm • Maurice Maeterlinck

... remarkable, at least," replied the cobbler. "If I did not hear you talk French, and see you standing up straight like one of us, I should think you were the monstrous toad in the fable that I read about a ...

— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach

... of wages, sufficient to leave a good profit for the employer. Others go even further, and as experience has shown that the native does not fear imprisonment as a penalty for leaving his work, desire the infliction of another punishment which he does fear—that is, the lash. Such monstrous demands seem fitter for the mouths of Spaniards in the sixteenth century than for Englishmen in the nineteenth. The difficulty of getting labour is incident to a new country, and must be borne with. In German East Africa it has been so much felt that the Administrator of that region has proposed ...

— Impressions of South Africa • James Bryce

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