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Definition of Monstrous
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

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

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

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

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

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
W. Somerset Maugham

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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