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monstrous

[mon-struhs] / ˈmɒn strəs /
ADJECTIVE
unnatural, shocking
Synonyms
STRONGEST
atrocious dreadful egregious freakish frightful grotesque gruesome heinous hideous horrendous horrible horrifying inhuman intolerable obscene odious outrageous preposterous terrible vicious
WEAK
abnormal desperate devilish diabolical disgraceful evil fiendish flagitious foul hellish loathsome morbid ominous satanic scandalous teratoid uncanny unusual
Antonyms
STRONGEST
beautiful delightful glorious great inoffensive magnificent pleasant pleasing wonderful
WEAK
common expected little miniature natural ordinary small standard tiny
ADJECTIVE
very large
Synonyms
STRONGEST
colossal enormous gargantuan gigantic huge immense impressive magnificent mammoth massive monumental towering tremendous
WEAK
cracking elephantine fantastic giant grandiose great prodigious stupendous titanic vast whopping
Antonyms
STRONGEST
dwarfed insignificant little miniature miniscule minute small teeny tiny unimportant unimpressive
WEAK
average common expected natural ordinary standard

Example Sentences

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These deficits have accumulated into a monstrous debt.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

We know we are not monsters, but we are equally sure that we have done monstrous things.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2026

Tennyson plunged into a monstrous grief that afflicted him for years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Van Der Beek communicates an unmistakable feeling that there is a good person somewhere inside his character, dying to break free of the tortured fate his monstrous doppelganger has created for him.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026

They were indeed coming, with Hymir at their rear, urging them on: all the giants of that part of the world, a many-headed monstrous bunch, the giants of the waste, misshapen and deadly.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman