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adjective

Monstrous adj.

Marvelous; strange. (Obs.)

Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. "He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love... is unnatural and monstrous in his affections."

Extraordinary in a way to excite wonder, dislike, apprehension, etc.; said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.; as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a monstrous story.

Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful. "So bad a death argues a monstrous life."

Abounding in monsters. (R.) "Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world."

adverb

Monstrous adv. Exceedingly; very; very much. "A monstrous thick oil on the top." "And will be monstrous witty on the poor."

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Etymology of 'Monstrous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Monstrous" Quotes from Famous Books

... great quantities for motormen and conductors. Had we not been led by easy grades to the acceptance, these things would have cried out for our eyes. Nowhere in the Orient or the Islands, is the male form made so monstrous. Had some one drawn them for us, in a place where we are accustomed to look for caricature; had we seen them in comic opera, or upon the legs of a Pacific Islander; or had we come from another planet, there would have been no mistake as to the debauchery of taste ...

— Child and Country - A Book of the Younger Generation • Will Levington Comfort

... pile of cloud the moon Peered sadly through the misty veil; Softly the breezes waved their wings; Sighed in my ears with plaintive wail. Night shaped a thousand monstrous forms; Yet fresh and frolicsome my breast; And what a fire burned in my veins, And what a ...

— The Youth of Goethe • Peter Hume Brown

... from the pages of their book, their very glances glued with love? What doth your Tchaikovsky with this Old World tale? Alas! you know full well. He tears it limb from limb. He makes over the lovers into two monstrous Cossacks, who gibber and squeak at each other while reading some obscene volume. Why, they are too much interested in the pictures to think of love. Then their dead carcasses are whirled aloft on screaming flames of hell, and sent whizzing into a ...

— Old Fogy - His Musical Opinions and Grotesques • James Huneker

... leaves of which the moonlight glanced with a soft lustre, rendered more beautiful by their stillness. That side on which the light could not fall, lay in deep shadow, which occasionally gave to the rocks and small projecting precipices an appearance of monstrous and unnatural life. Having passed through the tangled mazes of the glen, he at length reached its bottom, along which ran a brook, such as in the description of ...

— Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee • William Carleton

... favor or wish them well, if they broke their word." Sometimes they performed the pasambahan for greater solemnity and confirmation of the oath. That consisted in bringing forward the figure of some monstrous beast asking that they might be broken into pieces by it if they failed in their promise. Others, having placed a lighted candle in front of them, said that as that candle melted and was consumed, so might he who failed in his promise be consumed and destroyed. Such as these ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 • Francisco Colin

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