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adjective
1.
frightful or hideous, especially in appearance; extremely ugly.
2.
shocking or revolting; outrageous: monstrous cruelty.
3.
extraordinarily great; huge; immense: a monstrous building.
4.
deviating grotesquely from the natural or normal form or type.
adverb
6.
extremely; exceedingly; very.
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Monstrous
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Example Sentences
- Still, they're almost certainly going to need a monstrous battery.
- Hot spots left over from this monstrous cosmic blast gave scientists clues about the development of the universe.
- The rumor emanating from there reflected the instinctive dread aroused by such monstrous innovation.
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Word Origin & History
monstrous
mid-15c., "unnatural, deviating from the natural order, hideous," from L. monstruosus "strange, unnatural," from monstrum (see monster). Meaning "enormous" is from c.1500; that of "outrageously wrong" is from 1570s.
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