monstrous
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5.4
- adjective
- /ˈmɒnstrəs/
:
grotesco
- The monstrous creature loomed in the shadows, its twisted form sending shivers down my spine.
- monstrous creatures
- monstrous forms
- seems monstrous
Like some sort of monstrous robot that eats skiers.
- Like some sort of monstrous robot that eats skiers.
- A dragon is a monster that's composed of monstrous parts, and monstrous parts are parts that are terrifying but that also don't.
- I would, I would say maybe the story's leaning more towards like she's like a ghoul, you know, like a monstrous zombie almost thing.
- He's in that monstrous geometry and they find out that things are not as they ought to be.
- Like he kills this, like this, this monster, this monstrous, scary fucking creature that like basically it's whole thing is it eats the people that get thrown into that pit, right?
Examples
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But besides the youthful fear, I also sensed the tragedy of Larry's monstrous side and its effects on me.
Academic text (2011) -
In popular culture as a whole, the blending of the beautiful with the monstrous is a well-established motif.
Academic text (2013) -
But he is monstrous because it is monstrous to show so little interest in love and so much in being in love.
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Shall I put a beating heart in your monstrous form?
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Proust describes the war itself as "the monstrous reality under which there is nothing."
Academic text (1999) -
The earth shakes as a huge, monstrous creature approaches the lake and begins to drink from it.
Fiction book (1998) -
The first resembled a monstrous armadillo, though its head was large and broad.
Fiction book (1992) -
His friends swore they saw a monstrous hound with glowing red eyes kill him on the moor.
Fiction book (2000) -
Children drew pictures of a monstrous giant with terrifying features that seemed to leap off the page.
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The film's villain was a monstrous figure, haunting the dreams of everyone who dared to watch.
Synonyms
171
5.1
Very ugly and likely to make people feel shocked or disgusted
75
6.9
Being very strange and ugly in a way that shocks or amuses
Twisted out of shape so it looks ugly or unnatural
Having a shape that is not normal and often looking ugly
Antonyms
How Ugly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Monstrous comes from the Latin word monstrum, which meant a 'sign' of something strange or wrong and later became the word monster for an unnatural creature, so monstrous can mean distorted or hideous.