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monstrous
adjective
1 monstrous
Abnormally large.
Roget 31:
great;
greater
etc.
33;
large,
considerable,
fair,
above par;
big,
huge
etc.
(large in size)
192;
Herculean,
cyclopean;
ample;
abundant;
etc.
(enough)
639
full,
intense,
strong,
sound,
passing,
heavy,
plenary,
deep,
high;
signal,
at its height,
in the zenith.
world-wide,
widespread,
far-famed,
extensive;
wholesale;
many
etc.
102.
goodly,
noble,
precious,
mighty;
sad,
grave,
heavy,
serious;
far gone,
arrant,
downright;
utter,
uttermost;
crass,
gross,
arch,
profound,
intense,
consummate;
rank,
uninitiated,
red-hot,
desperate;
glaring,
flagrant,
stark staring;
thorough-paced,
thoroughgoing;
roaring,
thumping;
extraordinary. ;
important
etc.
642;
unsurpassed
etc.
(supreme)
33;
complete
etc.
52.
august,
grand,
dignified,
sublime,
majestic
etc.
(repute)
873.
vast,
immense,
enormous,
extreme;
inordinate,
excessive,
extravagant,
exorbitant,
outrageous,
preposterous,
unconscionable,
swinging,
monstrous,
overgrown;
towering,
stupendous,
prodigious,
astonishing,
incredible;
marvelous
etc.
870.
unlimited
etc.
(infinite)
105;
unapproachable,
unutterable,
indescribable,
ineffable,
unspeakable,
inexpressible,
beyond expression,
fabulous.
undiminished,
unabated,
unreduced†,
unrestricted.
absolute,
positive,
stark,
decided,
unequivocal,
essential,
perfect,
finished.
remarkable,
of mark,
marked,
pointed,
veriest;
noteworthy;
renowned.
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Roget 870:
surprised
etc.
v.;
aghast,
all agog,
breathless,
agape;
open-mouthed;
awestruck,
thunderstruck,
moonstruck,
planet-struck;
spellbound;
lost in amazement,
lost in wonder,
lost in astonishment;
struck all of a heap,
unable to believe one's senses,
like a duck ion thunder.
wonderful,
wondrous;
surprising
etc.
v.;
unexpected
etc.
508;
unheard of;
mysterious
etc.
(inexplicable)
519;
miraculous.
indescribable,
inexpressible,
inaffable†;
unutterable,
unspeakable.
monstrous,
prodigious,
stupendous,
marvelous;
inconceivable,
incredible;
inimaginable†,
unimaginable;
strange
etc.
(uncommon)
83;
passing strange.
striking
etc.
v.;
overwhelming;
wonder-working.
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Roget 851:
in bad taste vulgar,
unrefined.
coarse,
indecorous,
ribald,
gross;
unseemly,
unbeseeming†,
unpresentable†;
contra bonos mores [Lat.];
ungraceful
etc.
(ugly)
846.
dowdy;
slovenly
etc.
(dirty)
653;
ungenteel,
shabby genteel;
low,
common,
hoi polloi [Gr.],
etc.
(plebeian)
876;
uncourtly†;
uncivil
etc.
(discourteous)
895;
ill bred,
ill mannered;
underbred;
ungentlemanly,
ungentlemanlike;
unladylike,
unfeminine;
wild,
wild as an unbacked colt.
untutored,
unschooled
(ignorant)
491.
unkempt.
uncombed,
untamed,
unlicked†,
unpolished,
uncouth;
plebeian;
incondite†;
heavy,
rude,
awkward;
homely,
homespun,
home bred;
provincial,
countrified,
rustic;
boorish,
clownish;
savage,
brutish,
blackguard,
rowdy,
snobbish;
barbarous,
barbaric;
Gothic,
unclassical†,
doggerel,
heathenish,
tramontane,
outlandish;
uncultivated;
Bohemian.
obsolete
etc.
(antiquated)
124;
unfashionable;
newfangled
etc.
(unfamiliar)
83;
odd
etc.
(ridiculous)
853.
particular;
affected
etc.
855;
meretricious;
extravagant,
monstrous,
horrid;
shocking
etc.
(painful)
830.
gaudy,
tawdry,
overornamented,
baroque,
rococo;
bedizened,
tricked out,
gingerbread;
obtrusive.
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Roget 192:
large,
big;
great
etc.
(in quantity)
31;
considerable,
bulky,
voluminous,
ample,
massive,
massy;
capacious,
comprehensive;
spacious
etc.
180;
mighty,
towering,
fine,
magnificent.
corpulent,
stout,
fat,
obese,
plump,
squab,
full,
lusty,
strapping,
bouncing;
portly,
burly,
well-fed,
full-grown;
corn fed,
gram fed;
stalwart,
brawny,
fleshy;
goodly;
in good case,
in good condition;
in condition;
chopping,
jolly;
chub faced,
chubby faced.
lubberly,
hulky,
unwieldy,
lumpish,
gaunt,
spanking,
whacking,
whopping,
walloping,
thumping,
thundering,
hulking;
overgrown;
puffy
etc.
(swollen)
194.
huge,
immense,
enormous,
mighty;
vast,
vasty;
amplitudinous,
stupendous;
monster,
monstrous,
humongous,
monumental;
elephantine,
jumbo,
mammoth;
gigantic,
gigantean,
giant,
giant like,
titanic;
prodigious,
colossal,
Cyclopean,
Brobdingnagian,
Bunyanesque,
Herculean,
Gargantuan;
infinite
etc.
105.
large as life;
plump as a dumpling,
plump as a partridge;
fat as a pig,
fat as a quail,
fat as butter,
fat as brawn,
fat as bacon.
immeasurable,
unfathomable,
unplumbed;
inconceivable,
unimaginable,
unheard-of.
of cosmic proportions;
of epic proportions,
the mother of all,
teh granddaddy of all.
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2 monstrous
Shockingly brutal or cruel:
— No excess was too monstrous for them to commit.
synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, grievous.
Polish: bezduszny, bezlitosny, okrutny, niehumanitarny, antyhumanitarny, bezuczuciowy, nieludzki, nielitościwy
3 monstrous
Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous:
— Twisted into monstrous shapes.
synonym: grotesque.
Roget 853:
ridiculous,
ludicrous;
comical;
droll,
funny,
laughable,
pour rire,
grotesque,
farcical,
odd;
whimsical,
whimsical as a dancing bear;
fanciful,
fantastic,
queer,
rum,
quizzical,
quaint,
bizarre;
screaming;
eccentric
etc.
(unconformable)
83;
strange,
outlandish,
out of the way,
baroque,
weird;
awkward
etc.
(ugly)
846.
extravagant,
outre,
monstrous,
preposterous,
bombastic,
inflated,
stilted,
burlesque,
mock heroic.
drollish;
seriocomic,
tragicomic;
gimcrack,
contemptible
etc.
(unimportant)
643;
doggerel;
ironical
etc.
(derisive)
856;
risible.
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Roget 846:
ugly,
ugly as sin,
ugly as a toad,
ugly as a scarecrow,
ugly as a dead monkey;
plain,
bald
(unadorned)
849;
homely;
ordinary,
unornamental†,
inartistic;
unsightly,
unseemly,
uncomely,
unlovely;
unshapely;
sightless,
seemless†;
not fit to be seen;
unbeauteous†,
unbeautiful;
beautiless†,
semibeautiful;
shapeless
etc.
(amorphous)
241.
misshapen,
misproportioned†;
monstrous;
gaunt
etc.
(thin)
203;
dumpy
etc.
(short)
201;
curtailed of its fair proportions;
ill-made,
ill-shaped,
ill-proportioned;
crooked
etc.
(distorted)
243;
hard featured,
hard visaged;
ill-favored,
hard-favored,
evil-favored;
ill-looking;
unprepossessing,
unattractive,
uninviting,
unpleasing.
graceless,
inelegant;
ungraceful,
ungainly,
uncouth,
stiff;
rugged,
rough,
gross,
rude,
awkward,
clumsy,
slouching,
rickety;
gawky;
lumping,
lumpish†;
lumbering;
hulky†,
hulking;
unwieldy.
squalid,
haggard;
grim,
grim faced,
grim visaged;
grisly,
ghastly;
ghost like,
death like;
cadaverous,
grewsome†,
gruesome.
frightful,
hideous,
odious,
uncanny,
forbidding;
repellant,
repulsive,
repugnant,
grotesque,
bizarre;
grody [Coll.],
grody to the max [Coll.];
horrid,
horrible;
shocking
etc.
(painful)
830.
foul
etc.
(dirty)
653;
dingy
etc.
(colorless)
429;
gaudy
etc.
(color)
428;
disfigured
etc.
v.;
discolored.
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Roget 243:
distorted
etc.
v.;
out of shape,
irregular,
asymmetric,
unsymmetric†,
awry,
wry,
askew,
crooked;
not true,
not straight;
on one side,
crump†,
deformed;
harelipped;
misshapen,
misbegotten;
misproportioned†,
ill proportioned;
ill-made;
grotesque,
monstrous,
crooked as a ram's horn;
camel backed,
hump backed,
hunch backed,
bunch backed,
crook backed;
bandy;
bandy legged,
bow legged;
bow kneed,
knock kneed;
splay footed,
club footed;
round shouldered;
snub nosed;
curtailed of one's fair proportions;
stumpy
etc.
(short)
201;
gaunt
etc.
(thin)
203;
bloated
etc.
194;
scalene;
simous†;
taliped†,
talipedic†.
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Roget 83:
uncomformable,
exceptional;
abnormal,
abnormous†;
anomalous,
anomalistic;
out of order,
out of place,
out of keeping,
out of tune,
out of one's element;
irregular,
arbitrary;
teratogenic;
lawless,
informal,
aberrant,
stray,
wandering,
wanton;
peculiar,
exclusive,
unnatural,
eccentric,
egregious;
out of the beaten track,
off the beaten track,
out of the common,
out of the common run;
beyond the pale of,
out of the pale of;
misplaced;
funny.
unusual,
unaccustomed,
uncustomary,
unwonted,
uncommon;
rare,
curious,
odd,
extraordinary,
out of the ordinary;
strange,
monstrous;
wonderful
etc.
870;
unexpected,
unaccountable;
outre [Fr.],
out of the way,
remarkable,
noteworthy;
queer,
quaint,
nondescript,
none such,
sui generis [Lat.];
unfashionable;
fantastic,
grotesque,
bizarre;
outlandish,
exotic,
tombe des nues [Fr.],
preternatural;
denaturalized†.
heterogeneous,
heteroclite [Gramm.],
amorphous,
mongrel,
amphibious,
epicene,
half blood,
hybrid;
androgynous,
androgynal†;
asymmetric
etc.
243;
adelomorphous†,
bisexual,
hermaphrodite,
monoclinous†.
qualified
etc.
469.
singular,
unique,
one-of-a-kind.
newfangled,
novel,
non-classical;
original,
unconventional,
unheard of,
unfamiliar;
undescribed,
unprecedented,
unparalleled,
unexampled.
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