Definition of Monstrous

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Monstrous

Marvelous; strange.

Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth.

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.

Abounding in monsters.

Exceedingly; very; very much.

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Monstrous Quotations

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Douglas MacArthur

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Aldous Huxley

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Aldous Huxley

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
Michel de Montaigne

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
George Santayana

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Charles Baudelaire

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
Lord Acton

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
Omar N. Bradley

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
Isadora Duncan

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.
Jurgen Habermas

Monstrous Translations

monstrous in Dutch is monsterachtig, gedrochtelijk
monstrous in French is immense
monstrous in German is Ungeheuer
monstrous in Italian is mostro
monstrous in Latin is ingens
monstrous in Spanish is monstruoso

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