mon´strous|ly

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.
Archaic. very; extremely.
╂[< 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.

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