monstrous

Main Entry:
monstrous [mon-struhs]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unnatural, shocking
Synonyms: aberrant, abnormal, atrocious, cruel, desperate, devilish, diabolical, disgraceful, dreadful, egregious, evil, fiendish, flagitious, foul, freakish, frightful, grotesque, gruesome, heinous, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, infamous, inhuman, intolerable, loathsome, macabre, miscreated, morbid, obscene, odious, ominous, outrageous, preposterous, rank, satanic, scandalous, teratoid, terrible, uncanny, unusual, vicious, villainous
Antonyms: average, common, expected, natural, ordinary, standard
Main Entry: atrocious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: outrageous; widely condemned
Synonyms: awful, bad, barbaric, beastly, desperate, diabolical, fiendish, flagrant, godawful, grody, gross*, hairy*, heinous, lousy, monstrous, nefarious, rotten, scandalous, shocking, villainous, wicked
Main Entry: barbarous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crude, savage
Synonyms: atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, brutish, coarse, cruel, ferocious, heartless, ignorant, inhuman, inhumane, monstrous, primitive, rough, rude, ruthless, sadistic, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, unsophisticated, vicious, vulgar, wicked, wild, wolfish
Notes: barbaric pertains to crudeness and uncivility (based on Greek barbaros 'foreign'); barbarous pertains to cruelty, harshness, and immorality
Antonyms: civilized, cultured, educated, kind, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated
Main Entry: beastly
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: savage; vulgar
Synonyms: abominable, animal, barbarous, base, bestial, boorish, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, coarse, cruel, degraded, depraved, disgusting, feral, ferine, foul, gluttonous, gross, inhuman, irrational, loathsome, low, monstrous, obscene, piggish, prurient, repulsive, sadistic, swinish, unclean, vile
Antonyms: good, kind, nice, superior
Main Entry: colossal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very large
Synonyms: barn door, behemothic, blimp, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, huge, humongous*, immense, jumbo, mammoth, mondo, monstrous, mountainous, super, titanic, vast
Antonyms: small, teeny, tiny
Main Entry: corrupt
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: debased, vicious
Synonyms: abandoned, abased, baneful, boorish, degenerate, degraded, deleterious, depraved, dishonored, dissolute, evil, flagitious, infamous, loose, low, miscreant, monstrous, nefarious, perverse, profligate, rotten, villainous
Antonyms: clean, decent, helpful, high, kind, noble, sound, wholesome
Main Entry: cruel
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: vicious, pitiless; causing pain
Synonyms: atrocious, barbarous, bestial, bitter, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, callous, cold-blooded, degenerate, demoniac, depraved, evil, excruciating, ferocious, fierce, flinty, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, hateful, heartless, hellish, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, inhumane, malevolent, merciless, monstrous, painful, pernicious, poignant, rancorous, relentless, revengeful, ruthless, sadistic, sinful, spiteful, tyrannical, unfeeling, unkind, unnatural, unrelenting, vengeful, vicious, virulent, wicked
Antonyms: charitable, compassionate, considerate, feeling, gentle, kind, merciful, sympathetic, thoughtful, uncruel
Main Entry: desperate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: reckless, outrageous
Synonyms: atrocious, audacious, bold, careless, dangerous, daring, death-defying, determined, devil-may-care, foolhardy, frantic, frenzied, furious, hasty, hazardous, headlong, headstrong, heinous, impetuous, incautious, madcap, monstrous, precipitate, rash, risky, scandalous, shocking, venturesome, violent, wild
Antonyms: confident, content, satisfied, secure, unworried
Main Entry: detestable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: loathsome, abominable
Synonyms: abhorred, abhorrent, accursed, atrocious, awful, despicable, disgusting, execrable, godawful, grody, gross*, hateable, hateful, heinous, horrid, lousy, low-down, maggot, monstrous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, shocking, sorry, vile
Antonyms: admirable, adorable, adored, cherished, likeable, loveable, prized, respectable, respected
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