monstrous
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4.5
- adjective
- /ˈmɒnstrəs/
:
enorme
- We took a week off and just hired a monstrous crew of men to just dig us out.
You know everything will lead to this epic, monstrous moment, and then it's gone.
- You know everything will lead to this epic, monstrous moment, and then it's gone.
- This this does look like a pretty monstrous climb.
- And let me tell you mine right now, that is a monstrous game changer.
- That said, the payoff here is absolutely monstrous.
- It was just constant undulation over fields and pastures and up and down monstrous hills.
- Like I put my butt on the line and said, put the right team in place, go for this monstrous goal.
- And when we look at stories like Facebook or WeChat or Uber or Weibo, we see these extreme monstrous successes.
Examples
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The play is The Metamorphosis about a German man waking up one day and finding out he has become a monstrous bug, a huge beetle.
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The train thereof was of monstrous length.
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But then if you just have like a monstrous computer, then maybe.
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I had them take away that monstrous thing of yours and send this one 'round instead.
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that monstrous house up on the hill
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But this is a big deal because it's got a monstrous resolution.
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A huge, monstrous scaly head come out of the water.
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A huge something right underneath her, monstrous in its size and suddenness.
Fiction book (1999) -
The bulk tank room held the monstrous, shiny tank in a pit in the wet concrete floor.
Fiction book (1997) -
The giant statue was truly monstrous, towering over the rest of the buildings in the city.
Synonyms
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1.0
Very large in size, amount, or degree
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1.0
Very large in size
842
2.1
Very large in size, amount, or effect
794
3.0
Very large or impressive
721
2.1
Very large in size or amount
236
3.1
Very large and heavy
141
3.7
Very large in size, amount, or degree
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3.2
Very large, much bigger than normal
98
4.2
Too high to be fair or reasonable
55
4.7
So large in size or amount that it causes great surprise
37
3.6
Very large in size, much bigger than normal
30
5.6
Very large in amount or size
22
6.1
Too large and unfair in amount, often about money
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7.3
Very large, much bigger than usual
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7.5
Very large or impressive in a way that surprises people
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3.3
Very large and much bigger than usual
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4.8
A person or thing that seems bigger and more exciting than normal
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3.9
Very large in size or amount
Very large, often said in a playful way
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Etymology
Monstrous comes from monster (from Latin monstrum), and because monsters are often imagined as huge, monstrous also came to mean 'extremely large' or very great in size or amount.