Usually means: Horrifyingly large, ugly, or cruel.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. monstrous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. monstrous: Merriam-Webster
  3. monstrous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. monstrous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. monstrous: Collins English Dictionary
  6. monstrous: Vocabulary.com
  7. Monstrous, monstrous: Wordnik
  8. monstrous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. monstrous: Wiktionary
  10. monstrous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. monstrous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. monstrous: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Monstrous, monstrous: Dictionary.com
  14. monstrous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. monstrous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Monstrous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Monstrous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. monstrous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. monstrous: Rhymezone
  20. monstrous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. monstrous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. monstrous: FreeDictionary.org
  23. monstrous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. monstrous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monstrous: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monstrous: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monstrous: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Hideous or frightful.
▸ adjective:  Enormously large.
▸ adjective:  Freakish or grotesque.
▸ adjective:  Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical.

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atrocious, flagitious, grievous, heinous, wicked, evil, grotesque, ugly, big, large, more...

Opposite:
benign, normal, ordinary, pleasant, agreeable

Types:
cyclops, hydra, minotaur, centaur, satyr, siren, gorgon, chimera, dragon, more...

Phrases:
monstrous moonshine, Monstrous Compendium, Monstrous birth, monstrous character, monstrous hybrid, more...

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    dark green,     blood red,     eerie purple,     sickly yellow,     toxic orange, more...


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Similar:
atrocious, flagitious, grievous, heinous, wicked, evil, grotesque, ugly, big, large, more...

Opposite:
benign, normal, ordinary, pleasant, agreeable

Types:
cyclops, hydra, minotaur, centaur, satyr, siren, gorgon, chimera, dragon, more...

Phrases:
monstrous moonshine, Monstrous Compendium, Monstrous birth, monstrous character, monstrous hybrid, monstrous creatures, monstrous female, monstrous malefactor, monstrous hunger, monstrous birds of myth, more...

Colors:
    dark green,     blood red,     eerie purple,     sickly yellow,     toxic orange, more...



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