- mon´strous|ly
- mon|strous «MON struhs», adjective, adverb.–adj.1. huge; enormous: »
a monstrous wolf, a monstrous sum.
»Even while I gazed, this current acquired a monstrous velocity (Edgar Allan Poe).
SYNONYM(S): gigantic, immense, colossal, prodigious, stupendous.2. having the nature or appearance of a monster of fable or legend: »With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings (G. K. Chesterton).
3. Figurative. so wrong or absurd as to be almost unheard of: »a monstrous lie.
4. Figurative. shocking; horrible; dreadful: »There was no excess too monstrous for them to commit (Nicholas P. S. Wiseman).
SYNONYM(S): atrocious.5. wrongly or abnormally formed or shaped; like a monster.6. Obsolete. full of monsters: »Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide, Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world (Milton).
–adv.╂[< Old French monstreux (with English -ous), learned borrowing from Latin mōnstrōsus < mōnstrum; see etym. under monster (Cf. ↑monster)]–mon´strous|ly, adverb.–mon´strous|ness, noun.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.