monstrosity
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8.2
- noun
- /mɒnˈstrɒsɪti/
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monstruosidad
- Everyone gasped at the monstrosity of the creature, its twisted limbs and eerie glow making it seem otherworldly.
This is the latest monstrosity of a prototype that I've created.
- This is the latest monstrosity of a prototype that I've created.
- It wasn't the the buildings weren't like too much of A monstrosity like Tokyo was.
- It was like this giant MC mansion monstrosity, ugly, disgusting suburban home and outside of Dayton, OH.
- So she gave me all her favorite things and I just incorporated every single thing into this baked monstrosity.
- It was crazy and, and it was a place called Clearview Window Company and it was in Deep Ellum, just this big monstrosity.
- This is the first monstrosity that we will be taking on and tackling.
- And then I went upstairs and found this monstrosity.
Examples
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A huge, blue monstrosity that's bigger than the local bank and post office combined.
Fiction book (1996) -
For those who have never seen a Martian, it can be difficult to describe such a monstrosity.
Fiction book (1996) -
Who could be behind a monstrosity like that?
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The only time I can stand to look at that monstrosity is Christmas.
Fiction book (1995) -
I should send this monstrosity back to the factory.
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This is the first monstrosity that we will be taking on and tackling.
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Then they built that glass monstrosity, which could block our view of the glacier.
Fiction book (1999) -
We believe that this... this monstrosity... ...is the product of illegal genetic experimentation.
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Not a day goes by without someone complaining about that monstrosity this guy's renovating.
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Taken in this context, Gigantopithecus was no freakish monstrosity, but simply the primate example of a Pleistocene phenomenon.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
167
3.4
A person or thing that causes strong fear or disgust
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5.5
A building or object that looks very ugly in a place
2
9.9
A strange, often ugly scene that looks distorted
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9.9
A strange and ugly quality in people and things that shocks and interests
Antonyms
How Ugly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word monstrosity comes from the Latin monstrum, a strange thing people saw as a 'warning' and from the idea 'to show', and it is the same root as monster and demonstrate. So a monstrosity today is something that shocks or frightens people, often because it looks very ugly.