monstruous

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒnstɹʊəs/

monstruous (comparative more monstruous, superlative most monstruous)

1. (now rare) Monstrous. [from 15th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:

     For he was sterne and terrible by nature, […] And rather like a Gyant monstruous […].

• moustruous, monstrous, monstruows, monstrows

Borrowed from Old French monstrueuse, borrowed itself from Latin mōnstruōsus, mōnstrōsus; equivalent to monstre +‎ -ous.

• IPA^(key): /mɔnsˈtriu̯uːs/, /mɔnsˈtruːs/

monstruous

1. Misshapen, grotesque; of unnatural form or appearance.
2. (rare) Monstrous, terrifying, fear-inducing.

• monstruous

• English: monstrous, monstruous
• Scots: monsterous

• “monstruǒus (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-04.