monstrous

Definitions

1. adjective

   Hideous or frightful.

   Example

   • So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
2. adjective

   Enormously large.

   Examples

   • a monstrous height
   • The chiding billovv ſeemes to pelt the cloudes, / The vvinde ſhak'd ſurge, vvith high and monſtrous mayne, / Seemes to caſt vvater, on the burning Beare, […]
3. adjective

   Freakish or grotesque.

   Examples

   • The irregular and monstrous births
   • He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love […] is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.
4. adjective

   Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.

   Example

   • Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.
5. adjective

   Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical.

   Example

   • The whole story was monstrous, and only worthy of the superstitious days in which it was written.
6. adjective

   Disabled; crippled. (A severe slur used to describe persons with disabilities.)