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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
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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
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average common expected natural ordinary standard

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It became clear that what at first appeared to him and his father as another of the floods that afflicted Mystic every few years grew inexorably through the night until it became monstrous.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

These deficits have accumulated into a monstrous debt.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

No one could’ve imagined that Chávez could’ve possibly done things so monstrous, but maybe we shouldn’t have built him up so much while he was alive and after his death in the first place.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

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

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2026

Yesterday I was almost willing to accept Van Helsing’s monstrous ideas; but now they seem to start out lurid before me as outrages on common sense.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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