monstrous

English

Etymology

From Middle English monstrous, from Old French monstrueuse, monstrüos, from Latin mōnstrōsus. Compare monstruous.

Adjective

monstrous (comparative more monstrous, superlative most monstrous)

Hideous or frightful.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
  So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
Enormously large.
a monstrous height

a monstrous ox
Freakish or grotesque.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Locke
  a monstrous birth
- (Can we date this quote?) Jeremy Taylor
  He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love […] is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.
Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
  Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.
(obsolete) Marvellous; strange.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:gigantic

Translations

hideous or frightful

Asturian: monstruosu
Bulgarian: зверски (bg) (zverski), чудовищен (bg) (čudovišten)
Catalan: monstruós
Finnish: hirveä (fi), hirvittävä (fi)
French: monstrueux (fr)
Galician: monstruoso
German: ungeheuerlich (de), monströs (de)
Greek: τερατώδης (el) (teratódis)

Italian: mostruoso (it)
Lithuanian: siaubingas m
Occitan: monstruós
Portuguese: monstruoso (pt)
Romanian: monstruos (ro), hidos (ro), oribil (ro)
Russian: чудо́вищный (ru) (čudóviščnyj), отврати́тельный (ru) (otvratítelʹnyj)
Spanish: monstruoso (es)

enormously large

Asturian: monstruosu
Bulgarian: зверски (bg) (zverski), чудовищен (bg) (čudovišten)
Catalan: monstruós
Finnish: valtava (fi), suunnaton (fi)
French: monstrueux (fr)
German: monströs (de)
Greek: τεράστιος (el) (terástios)

Italian: enorme (it), gigantesco (it)
Lithuanian: milžiniškas m
Portuguese: monstruoso (pt), gigantesco (pt), gigante (pt), enorme (pt)
Romanian: enorm (ro), colosal (ro)
Russian: чудо́вищный (ru) (čudóviščnyj)
Spanish: monstruoso (es)

freakish or grotesque

Bulgarian: зверски (bg) (zverski), чудовищен (bg) (čudovišten)
Catalan: monstruós
Finnish: groteski (fi)
Galician: monstruoso
Greek: τερατώδης (el) (teratódis), τερατόμορφος (el) (teratómorfos)

Lithuanian: išsigimęs m
Portuguese: monstruoso (pt)
Romanian: cumplit (ro), atroce (ro), groaznic (ro)
Spanish: monstruoso (es)

of, or relating to a mythical monster

Bulgarian: зверски (bg) (zverski), чудовищен (bg) (čudovišten)
Catalan: monstruós
Greek: θηριώδης (el) m or f (thiriódis)
Ancient Greek: πελώριος (pelṓrios)
Ido: monstratra

Lithuanian: monstriškas m
Romanian: monstruos (ro)
Russian: чудо́вищный (ru) (čudóviščnyj)
Spanish: monstruoso (es)

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Translations to be checked

Chinese:
Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 怪異 (zh), ^{(please verify)} 怪异 (zh) (guàiyì)
Dutch: ^{(please verify)} monsterlijk (nl)
Greek:
Ancient: ^{(please verify)} τερατώδης (teratṓdēs)

Irish: ^{(please verify)} anchúinseach
Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 巨大 (ja) (きょだい, kyodai)
Korean: ^{(please verify)} 기괴망측한 (gigoemangcheukhan)
Latin: ^{(please verify)} mōnstrōsus

Middle English

Adjective

monstrous

Alternative form of monstruous

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