Antonyms for monstrous
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : mon-struhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɒn strəs |
- acceptable
- average
- beautiful
- common
- delightful
- dwarfed
- expected
- gentle
- glorious
- good
- great
- innocent
- inoffensive
- insignificant
- kind
- little
- magnificent
- miniature
- miniscule
- minute
- moral
- natural
- nice
- ordinary
- pleasant
- pleasing
- pretty
- pure
- reasonable
- sensible
- small
- standard
- teeny
- tiny
- unimportant
- unimpressive
- wonderful
Definition of monstrous
Origin :- mid-15c., "unnatural, deviating from the natural order, hideous," from Middle French monstrueux, from Latin monstruosus "strange, unnatural, monstrous," from monstrum (see monster). Meaning "enormous" is from c.1500; that of "outrageously wrong" is from 1570s. Earlier form monstruous (late 14c., from Old French monstruous) was "very common in the 16th c." [OED].
- adj unnatural, shocking
- adj very large
- A non-loving Universal Thought was too monstrous a concept to entertain.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- I do know that you did it for love of me, monstrous though it sounds to say so.
- Extract from : « Hetty's Strange History » by Anonymous
- She thinks it monstrous because she has eyes in her head; she thinks it monstrous because it is monstrous.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- They had sent this monstrous caricature of the most beautiful thing in the world.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- His design then appeared to him insane, monstrous, polluting.
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- It seemed to him monstrous that one should sadden one's life by such an excursion as this.
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- The manner in which he had been insulted by that creature Silviane was so monstrous!
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- Such a monstrous Pandarus would have been blackballed at the Pimp.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 » by Various
- He listened patiently, but seemed wedded to some monstrous view of his own.
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
- What now appears to us as monstrous seemed then quite natural.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
Synonyms for monstrous
- aberrant
- abnormal
- atrocious
- colossal
- cracking
- cruel
- desperate
- devilish
- diabolical
- disgraceful
- dreadful
- egregious
- elephantine
- enormous
- evil
- fantastic
- fiendish
- flagitious
- foul
- freakish
- frightful
- gargantuan
- giant
- gigantic
- grandiose
- great
- grotesque
- gruesome
- heinous
- hellish
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrifying
- huge
- immense
- impressive
- infamous
- inhuman
- intolerable
- loathsome
- macabre
- magnificent
- mammoth
- massive
- miscreated
- monumental
- morbid
- obscene
- odious
- ominous
- outrageous
- preposterous
- prodigious
- rank
- satanic
- scandalous
- stupendous
- teratoid
- terrible
- titanic
- towering
- tremendous
- uncanny
- unusual
- vast
- vicious
- villainous
- whopping
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