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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

... certainly decreeing but a small measure of the equality in the eye of the law which the Protestants might claim as a natural and indefeasible right. The citizens of the Norman capital, however, regarded the enactment as a monstrous outrage upon society. Charles the Ninth, happened at this time to be passing through Gaillon, a place some ten leagues distant from Rouen, on his way to the siege of Havre; and Damours, the advocate-general, was deputed to ...

— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird

... then another, she stood breathless and following with eyes astrain the figure of her ally, little Belgium, gallant and heroic, which had moved out upon the world arena, the first to offer battle to the armour-weighted, monstrous war lord of Europe, on his way to sate his soul long thirsty for blood—men's if he could, women's and little children's by preference, being less costly. And as she stood and strained her eyes across the sea by this and other sights moved to ...

— The Major • Ralph Connor

... helpless women became an institution, which is thus characterized by Sumner: "After the refined torture of the body and nameless mental sufferings, women were executed in the most cruel manner. These facts are so monstrous that all other aberrations of the human race are small in comparison.... He who studies the witch trials believes himself transferred into the midst of a race which has smothered all its own nobler instincts, reason, ...

— Taboo and Genetics • Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard

... Belgian territory is on a par with the murder of civilians in cold blood, and after admission of their innocence, with the massacre of priests, and the sinking without warning of unarmed ships with their passengers and crews. To regard these things as something normal to warfare in the past is as monstrous an historical error as it would be to regard the reign of terror during the French Revolution as normal to civil disputes within the State. And to appreciate such a truth is, I repeat, of especial moment ...

— A General Sketch of the European War - The First Phase • Hilaire Belloc

... yes, of course she would follow Annie or any of the rest of them fast enough if she had the opportunity, though she were to die at the end of it; but she ought never to have had the opportunity, it was preposterous to let her. The whole thing is monstrous. I never heard of such rashness. What can Dr. and ...

— A Houseful of Girls • Sarah Tytler

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