monstrous
Adjective Satellite
- abnormally large
- shockingly brutal or cruel
- "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"
- distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
- "twisted into monstrous shapes"
Adj
- Hideous or frightful.
- Enormously large.
- Freakish or grotesque.
- Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
- Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical.
Examples
- a monstrous height
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English monstrous, from Old French monstrueuse, monstrüos, from Latin mōnstrōsus. Compare monstruous. By surface analysis, monster + -ous.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 11
monstrous: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmonstrous: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
monstrous: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 14
monstrous: valid Words With Friends Word