Definitions for monstrous
ˈmɒn strəsmon·strous

Princeton's WordNet(2.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. monstrous(adj)

   abnormally large

2. atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous(adj)

   shockingly brutal or cruel

   "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"

3. grotesque, monstrous(adj)

   distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous

   "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes"

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1. monstrous(Adjective)

   hideous or frightful

2. monstrous(Adjective)

   enormously large

3. monstrous(Adjective)

   freakish or grotesque

4. monstrous(Adjective)

   of, or relating to a mythical monster

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Monstrous(adj)

   marvelous; strange

   Etymology: [OE. monstruous, F. monstrueux, fr. L. monstruosus, fr. monstrum. See Monster.]

2. Monstrous(adj)

   having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth

   Etymology: [OE. monstruous, F. monstrueux, fr. L. monstruosus, fr. monstrum. See Monster.]

3. Monstrous(adj)

   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

   Etymology: [OE. monstruous, F. monstrueux, fr. L. monstruosus, fr. monstrum. See Monster.]

4. Monstrous(adj)

   extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful

   Etymology: [OE. monstruous, F. monstrueux, fr. L. monstruosus, fr. monstrum. See Monster.]

5. Monstrous(adj)

   abounding in monsters

   Etymology: [OE. monstruous, F. monstrueux, fr. L. monstruosus, fr. monstrum. See Monster.]

6. Monstrous(adverb)

   exceedingly; very; very much

   Etymology: [OE. monstruous, F. monstrueux, fr. L. monstruosus, fr. monstrum. See Monster.]

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1. Monstrous

   Monstrous is a 2009 Founder Institute graduate that recently released its first game, Entranced for the iPhone.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of monstrous in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of monstrous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of monstrous in a Sentence

1. Sir Winston Churchill, 1940, in his first address as the newly appointed Prime Minister.:

   .... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; "It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy." You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

2. The Alliance of Doctors:

   Its monstrous. Putin is crazy. its just making a mockery of everything.

3. Isadora Duncan:

   It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

4. Douglas MacArthur:

   Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -­ kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor ­- with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

5. Nancy Pelosi:

   On the very first day that the Democratic Majority held the gavel, the House of Representatives voted to intervene against Republicans' monstrous health care lawsuit to defend people with pre-existing conditions and the health care of all Americans, while The Trump administration on Monday broadens The Trump administration on Monday monstrous ambitions from destroying protections for pre-existing conditions to tearing down every last benefit and protection The Affordable Care Act provides, Democrats are fiercely defending the law of the land and protecting all Americans' health care.

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