MONSTROUS


Meaning of MONSTROUS in English

mon ‧ strous /ˈmɒnstrəs $ ˈmɑːn-/ BrE AmE adjective

1 . very wrong, immoral, or unfair:

It’s monstrous to charge that much for a hotel room.

Such monstrous injustice is hard to understand.

2 . unusually large:

a monstrous nose

3 . unnatural or ugly and frightening SYN hideous :

a monstrous shadow on the stairs

—monstrously adverb :

He was ugly and monstrously fat.

It was monstrously unfair.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.