Definition of monstrous in English:

monstrous

adjective ˈmɒnstrəsˈmɑnstrəs

1Having the ugly or frightening appearance of a monster.
丑陋的；可怕的
monstrous, bug-eyed fish
眼睛暴突的怪鱼。
Example sentencesExamples
- Soon other beasties are popping up, and Roger is forced to deal with the house's evil apparitions and monstrous demons.
- Some are like horses, others like monstrous turtles, many resemble wicked snakes, and the list continues.
- Overhead them was a huge, monstrous and extremely ugly bird drooling over them.
- It was from this odd dream that Jane woke to a spectre moving about in her room, the form of a hideous and monstrous woman emerging from her very own closet.
- Using its enormous head, the monstrous creature rammed a gaping hole in the wall.
- There were cries of excitement and horror as a monstrous serpent and a giant spider came on to the train, sending shivers down one's spine.
- Their masks are slovenly and childish - many are monstrous; none of them can see how grotesque they are.
- Something lived in that house, thought the oldest kids in the neighborhood, something dark, evil, monstrous.
- Then he opens his robe to reveal to Scrooge two hideous and monstrous children that cling to the ghost's robe.
- Then, bursting out from behind the trees, the same monstrous face appeared beneath a dark hood.
- She regarded the monstrous creature with wide, terrified eyes of pure confusion.
- The next moment a hideous, grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room.
- In a bid to protect herself she invents an imaginary friend - a huge, monstrous beast called the Gruffalo.
- Its appearance seemed to represent a monstrous wolf, with long brown fur that swept down its back and belly.
- She may have had a beautiful, attractive body but once the fan went down, you would see a horrible, gruesome, monstrous, ugly face.
- She was in no state to argue, nor to mask herself as a horrible monstrous creation.
- Grendel lives, with his monstrous mother, at the bottom of a foul lake, which a variety of other monsters inhabit.
- In nineteenth-century France several freak shows were banned for fear that the shocking spectacles would cause women to bear monstrous children.
- Then I locked into a better fish that I thought must be a roach but I was to be proved wrong when a monstrous dace came to the surface.
- After a good night's rest, the couple resume their journey appearing more refreshed and less monstrous.
Synonyms
grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrendous, horrifying, grisly, disgusting, repulsive, repellent, revolting, nightmarish, dreadful, frightening, terrifying, fearsome, freakish, malformed, misshapen, unnatural, abnormal, mutant, miscreated
rare teratoid
2Inhumanly or outrageously evil or wrong.
（人，行为）邪恶的，骇人听闻的
he wasn't lovable, he was monstrous and violent
他不可爱，他邪恶又暴虐。
it is a monstrous waste of money
这样浪费钱是骇人听闻的。
Example sentencesExamples
- The 1994 genocide in Rwanda is a monstrous atrocity hanging over the conscience of the world.
- There was something incredibly monstrous about the inhuman way it could not be stopped.
- To those involved in any way with this monstrous evil, I say to you that this is your first and only chance.
- The destruction of someone's home is a huge and monstrous punishment - was their ‘crime’ really that bad?
- It is the horribly ordinary condition of militarised men made monstrous by war.
- Any country that would even seriously consider such a monstrous act certainly isn't going to be shown mercy when war is brought to its civilian population.
- It was denounced by one outraged commentator as ‘a monstrous departure from the dignity and propriety of journalism’.
- I think virtually everyone in the contemporary world would find such a project morally monstrous.
- It is monstrous because it is morally bankrupt to threaten nuclear holocaust against millions of innocent persons and against the center of a world religion.
- These bogus safety issues and courses are a monstrous waste of money.
- But that rage alone is not enough to drive people to monstrous acts of violence.
- But I'm still troubled by the fact that they could even consider doing something so monstrous.
- But what of a wicked lord who hides his monstrous desire for rule and seduces a nation - as well as its queen - into electing him to the highest office in the land?
- They deem insignificant sins that the church considered monstrous only a few generations ago.
- How could such a cruel, monstrous decision exist on the earth?
- They say that he has treated his own people with such monstrous disregard for human life that we cannot assume he will be deterred by a threat to destroy his nation in time of war.
- One's first reaction, apart from deep grief, is outrage that such a monstrous attack against innocent civilians, against children is possible.
- We are overall reminded of how brutal, vile and monstrous the Nazi regime truly was and why we had to completely destroy them in order to prevent any chance of their coming back.
- Besides these monstrous and horrifying thoughts, the uncontrolled practice of cloning also threatens the dignity of humankind.
Synonyms
appalling, abhorrent, heinous, evil, wicked, abominable, terrible, horrible, dreadful, hideous, foul, vile
outrageous, shocking, disgraceful, scandalous, atrocious
villainous, nasty, ghastly, odious, loathsome, shameful, infamous, nefarious, iniquitous, unspeakable, intolerable, contemptible, despicable, vicious, cruel, savage, brutish, bestial, barbaric, barbarous, base, inhuman, depraved, fiendish, devilish, diabolical, satanic, ruthless, merciless
British informal beastly
rare egregious, flagitious
3Extraordinarily and dauntingly large.
巨大的，庞大的
the monstrous tidal wave swamped the surrounding countryside
巨潮淹没了周围乡村。
Example sentencesExamples
- Charlie's dad is an immense, monstrous presence at the centre of the film.
- At 12.59 am, a massive deep sea quake struck just off the coast of Indonesia, sparking a tidal wave of monstrous proportions.
- For many of the passengers, the trail of devastation left behind by the monstrous tidal waves, is still fresh in their memory.
- Nobody wants to come home to an ugly building, or worse, live opposite a monstrous, modern carbuncle and it seems builders and developers are at long last beginning to realise this.
- I stood there in the middle of the hall watching a huge - enormous - monstrous suitcase.
- She looked at one of the frogs, a big homely one with a gigantic mouth and monstrous warts.
- The protagonists are not overwhelmed by the monstrous power of Nature but by their own little flaws and fears which come to the surface when the mission suffers an inevitable setback.
- A beautiful dive at 20m, I saw huge coral formations and monstrous sea fans.
- In the direction that Maria heard the sound of wind, she could see what appeared to be a monstrous pile of blankets.
- With his ear against the moist earth, Jason heard a monstrous rumble and the ground shook hundreds of times more violently than it would have in an earthquake.
- They are organisms that, though gigantic, exist not to be frightening; though monstrous, we should not avoid them.
- I immediately stopped my car and, smiling wickedly, pulled out the monstrous bag.
- The stranger was so monstrous in size that he was extremely terrified and stunned.
Synonyms
huge, enormous, massive, great, gigantic, giant, colossal, mammoth, vast, immense, tremendous, mighty, stupendous, monumental, epic, prodigious, mountainous, titanic, towering, elephantine, king-sized, king-size, gargantuan, Herculean, Brobdingnagian, substantial
informal mega, monster, whopping, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, humongous, jumbo, hulking
British informal whacking, whacking great, ginormous

Derivatives

monstrously

adverb ˈmɒnstrəsliˈmɑnztrəsli

In the very next paragraph, he remarks: ‘It is monstrously premature to think that the threat has passed.
Example sentencesExamples
- Dolly is about five times the size of a dog, and she's monstrously fast and strong.
- The proposals - which were widely condemned as monstrously intrusive and constituting a gross infringement of privacy and liberty - have been withdrawn for further consultation.
- And, today, the monstrously ugly thing was demolished and removed, leaving the patch of ground clear for flowers, shrubs and trees.
- The public sector is still monstrously big and squeezes out the private sector.

monstrousness

noun

The word homicide is wholly inadequate to convey the monstrousness of such a culture.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Nazi crimes, it seems to me, explode the limits of the law; and that is precisely what constitutes their monstrousness.
- Did the war make him monstrous, or was the war a product of his monstrousness?
- Then all too rapidly, the horror and monstrousness began to sink in.
- Probably they have become numb to the monstrousness of their actions.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'strange or unnatural'): from Old French monstreux or Latin monstrosus, from monstrum (see monster). Current senses date from the 16th century.

Definition of monstrous in US English:

monstrous

adjectiveˈmänstrəsˈmɑnstrəs

1Having the ugly or frightening appearance of a monster.
丑陋的；可怕的
monstrous, bug-eyed fish
眼睛暴突的怪鱼。
Example sentencesExamples
- Some are like horses, others like monstrous turtles, many resemble wicked snakes, and the list continues.
- Something lived in that house, thought the oldest kids in the neighborhood, something dark, evil, monstrous.
- After a good night's rest, the couple resume their journey appearing more refreshed and less monstrous.
- Its appearance seemed to represent a monstrous wolf, with long brown fur that swept down its back and belly.
- Using its enormous head, the monstrous creature rammed a gaping hole in the wall.
- Their masks are slovenly and childish - many are monstrous; none of them can see how grotesque they are.
- There were cries of excitement and horror as a monstrous serpent and a giant spider came on to the train, sending shivers down one's spine.
- The next moment a hideous, grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room.
- In nineteenth-century France several freak shows were banned for fear that the shocking spectacles would cause women to bear monstrous children.
- Then I locked into a better fish that I thought must be a roach but I was to be proved wrong when a monstrous dace came to the surface.
- Soon other beasties are popping up, and Roger is forced to deal with the house's evil apparitions and monstrous demons.
- In a bid to protect herself she invents an imaginary friend - a huge, monstrous beast called the Gruffalo.
- Grendel lives, with his monstrous mother, at the bottom of a foul lake, which a variety of other monsters inhabit.
- Then, bursting out from behind the trees, the same monstrous face appeared beneath a dark hood.
- She was in no state to argue, nor to mask herself as a horrible monstrous creation.
- She regarded the monstrous creature with wide, terrified eyes of pure confusion.
- She may have had a beautiful, attractive body but once the fan went down, you would see a horrible, gruesome, monstrous, ugly face.
- It was from this odd dream that Jane woke to a spectre moving about in her room, the form of a hideous and monstrous woman emerging from her very own closet.
- Then he opens his robe to reveal to Scrooge two hideous and monstrous children that cling to the ghost's robe.
- Overhead them was a huge, monstrous and extremely ugly bird drooling over them.
Synonyms
grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrendous, horrifying, grisly, disgusting, repulsive, repellent, revolting, nightmarish, dreadful, frightening, terrifying, fearsome, freakish, malformed, misshapen, unnatural, abnormal, mutant, miscreated
1. 1.1 (of a person or an action) inhumanly or outrageously evil or wrong.
  （人，行为）邪恶的，骇人听闻的
  he wasn't lovable, he was monstrous and violent
  他不可爱，他邪恶又暴虐。
  it is a monstrous waste of money
  这样浪费钱是骇人听闻的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  We are overall reminded of how brutal, vile and monstrous the Nazi regime truly was and why we had to completely destroy them in order to prevent any chance of their coming back.
  Any country that would even seriously consider such a monstrous act certainly isn't going to be shown mercy when war is brought to its civilian population.
  Besides these monstrous and horrifying thoughts, the uncontrolled practice of cloning also threatens the dignity of humankind.
  To those involved in any way with this monstrous evil, I say to you that this is your first and only chance.
  One's first reaction, apart from deep grief, is outrage that such a monstrous attack against innocent civilians, against children is possible.
  How could such a cruel, monstrous decision exist on the earth?
  There was something incredibly monstrous about the inhuman way it could not be stopped.
  But I'm still troubled by the fact that they could even consider doing something so monstrous.
  But that rage alone is not enough to drive people to monstrous acts of violence.
  They deem insignificant sins that the church considered monstrous only a few generations ago.
  It was denounced by one outraged commentator as ‘a monstrous departure from the dignity and propriety of journalism’.
  It is monstrous because it is morally bankrupt to threaten nuclear holocaust against millions of innocent persons and against the center of a world religion.
  The 1994 genocide in Rwanda is a monstrous atrocity hanging over the conscience of the world.
  I think virtually everyone in the contemporary world would find such a project morally monstrous.
  But what of a wicked lord who hides his monstrous desire for rule and seduces a nation - as well as its queen - into electing him to the highest office in the land?
  These bogus safety issues and courses are a monstrous waste of money.
  They say that he has treated his own people with such monstrous disregard for human life that we cannot assume he will be deterred by a threat to destroy his nation in time of war.
  The destruction of someone's home is a huge and monstrous punishment - was their ‘crime’ really that bad?
  It is the horribly ordinary condition of militarised men made monstrous by war.
  Synonyms
  appalling, abhorrent, heinous, evil, wicked, abominable, terrible, horrible, dreadful, hideous, foul, vile
2. 1.2 Extremely and dauntingly large.
  巨大的，庞大的
  the monstrous tidal wave swamped the surrounding countryside
  巨潮淹没了周围乡村。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Nobody wants to come home to an ugly building, or worse, live opposite a monstrous, modern carbuncle and it seems builders and developers are at long last beginning to realise this.
  She looked at one of the frogs, a big homely one with a gigantic mouth and monstrous warts.
  They are organisms that, though gigantic, exist not to be frightening; though monstrous, we should not avoid them.
  With his ear against the moist earth, Jason heard a monstrous rumble and the ground shook hundreds of times more violently than it would have in an earthquake.
  In the direction that Maria heard the sound of wind, she could see what appeared to be a monstrous pile of blankets.
  The protagonists are not overwhelmed by the monstrous power of Nature but by their own little flaws and fears which come to the surface when the mission suffers an inevitable setback.
  I stood there in the middle of the hall watching a huge - enormous - monstrous suitcase.
  Charlie's dad is an immense, monstrous presence at the centre of the film.
  At 12.59 am, a massive deep sea quake struck just off the coast of Indonesia, sparking a tidal wave of monstrous proportions.
  The stranger was so monstrous in size that he was extremely terrified and stunned.
  For many of the passengers, the trail of devastation left behind by the monstrous tidal waves, is still fresh in their memory.
  I immediately stopped my car and, smiling wickedly, pulled out the monstrous bag.
  A beautiful dive at 20m, I saw huge coral formations and monstrous sea fans.
  Synonyms
  huge, enormous, massive, great, gigantic, giant, colossal, mammoth, vast, immense, tremendous, mighty, stupendous, monumental, epic, prodigious, mountainous, titanic, towering, elephantine, king-sized, king-size, gargantuan, herculean, brobdingnagian, substantial

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘strange or unnatural’): from Old French monstreux or Latin monstrosus, from monstrum (see monster). Current senses date from the 16th century.

单词	monstrous
释义	Definition of monstrous in English: monstrous adjective ˈmɒnstrəsˈmɑnstrəs 1Having the ugly or frightening appearance of a monster. 丑陋的；可怕的 monstrous, bug-eyed fish 眼睛暴突的怪鱼。 Example sentencesExamples Soon other beasties are popping up, and Roger is forced to deal with the house's evil apparitions and monstrous demons. Some are like horses, others like monstrous turtles, many resemble wicked snakes, and the list continues. Overhead them was a huge, monstrous and extremely ugly bird drooling over them. It was from this odd dream that Jane woke to a spectre moving about in her room, the form of a hideous and monstrous woman emerging from her very own closet. Using its enormous head, the monstrous creature rammed a gaping hole in the wall. There were cries of excitement and horror as a monstrous serpent and a giant spider came on to the train, sending shivers down one's spine. Their masks are slovenly and childish - many are monstrous; none of them can see how grotesque they are. Something lived in that house, thought the oldest kids in the neighborhood, something dark, evil, monstrous. Then he opens his robe to reveal to Scrooge two hideous and monstrous children that cling to the ghost's robe. Then, bursting out from behind the trees, the same monstrous face appeared beneath a dark hood. She regarded the monstrous creature with wide, terrified eyes of pure confusion. The next moment a hideous, grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. In a bid to protect herself she invents an imaginary friend - a huge, monstrous beast called the Gruffalo. Its appearance seemed to represent a monstrous wolf, with long brown fur that swept down its back and belly. She may have had a beautiful, attractive body but once the fan went down, you would see a horrible, gruesome, monstrous, ugly face. She was in no state to argue, nor to mask herself as a horrible monstrous creation. Grendel lives, with his monstrous mother, at the bottom of a foul lake, which a variety of other monsters inhabit. In nineteenth-century France several freak shows were banned for fear that the shocking spectacles would cause women to bear monstrous children. Then I locked into a better fish that I thought must be a roach but I was to be proved wrong when a monstrous dace came to the surface. After a good night's rest, the couple resume their journey appearing more refreshed and less monstrous. Synonyms grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrendous, horrifying, grisly, disgusting, repulsive, repellent, revolting, nightmarish, dreadful, frightening, terrifying, fearsome, freakish, malformed, misshapen, unnatural, abnormal, mutant, miscreated rare teratoid 2Inhumanly or outrageously evil or wrong. （人，行为）邪恶的，骇人听闻的 he wasn't lovable, he was monstrous and violent 他不可爱，他邪恶又暴虐。 it is a monstrous waste of money 这样浪费钱是骇人听闻的。 Example sentencesExamples The 1994 genocide in Rwanda is a monstrous atrocity hanging over the conscience of the world. There was something incredibly monstrous about the inhuman way it could not be stopped. To those involved in any way with this monstrous evil, I say to you that this is your first and only chance. The destruction of someone's home is a huge and monstrous punishment - was their ‘crime’ really that bad? It is the horribly ordinary condition of militarised men made monstrous by war. Any country that would even seriously consider such a monstrous act certainly isn't going to be shown mercy when war is brought to its civilian population. It was denounced by one outraged commentator as ‘a monstrous departure from the dignity and propriety of journalism’. I think virtually everyone in the contemporary world would find such a project morally monstrous. It is monstrous because it is morally bankrupt to threaten nuclear holocaust against millions of innocent persons and against the center of a world religion. These bogus safety issues and courses are a monstrous waste of money. But that rage alone is not enough to drive people to monstrous acts of violence. But I'm still troubled by the fact that they could even consider doing something so monstrous. But what of a wicked lord who hides his monstrous desire for rule and seduces a nation - as well as its queen - into electing him to the highest office in the land? They deem insignificant sins that the church considered monstrous only a few generations ago. How could such a cruel, monstrous decision exist on the earth? They say that he has treated his own people with such monstrous disregard for human life that we cannot assume he will be deterred by a threat to destroy his nation in time of war. One's first reaction, apart from deep grief, is outrage that such a monstrous attack against innocent civilians, against children is possible. We are overall reminded of how brutal, vile and monstrous the Nazi regime truly was and why we had to completely destroy them in order to prevent any chance of their coming back. Besides these monstrous and horrifying thoughts, the uncontrolled practice of cloning also threatens the dignity of humankind. Synonyms appalling, abhorrent, heinous, evil, wicked, abominable, terrible, horrible, dreadful, hideous, foul, vile outrageous, shocking, disgraceful, scandalous, atrocious villainous, nasty, ghastly, odious, loathsome, shameful, infamous, nefarious, iniquitous, unspeakable, intolerable, contemptible, despicable, vicious, cruel, savage, brutish, bestial, barbaric, barbarous, base, inhuman, depraved, fiendish, devilish, diabolical, satanic, ruthless, merciless British informal beastly rare egregious, flagitious 3Extraordinarily and dauntingly large. 巨大的，庞大的 the monstrous tidal wave swamped the surrounding countryside 巨潮淹没了周围乡村。 Example sentencesExamples Charlie's dad is an immense, monstrous presence at the centre of the film. At 12.59 am, a massive deep sea quake struck just off the coast of Indonesia, sparking a tidal wave of monstrous proportions. For many of the passengers, the trail of devastation left behind by the monstrous tidal waves, is still fresh in their memory. Nobody wants to come home to an ugly building, or worse, live opposite a monstrous, modern carbuncle and it seems builders and developers are at long last beginning to realise this. I stood there in the middle of the hall watching a huge - enormous - monstrous suitcase. She looked at one of the frogs, a big homely one with a gigantic mouth and monstrous warts. The protagonists are not overwhelmed by the monstrous power of Nature but by their own little flaws and fears which come to the surface when the mission suffers an inevitable setback. A beautiful dive at 20m, I saw huge coral formations and monstrous sea fans. In the direction that Maria heard the sound of wind, she could see what appeared to be a monstrous pile of blankets. With his ear against the moist earth, Jason heard a monstrous rumble and the ground shook hundreds of times more violently than it would have in an earthquake. They are organisms that, though gigantic, exist not to be frightening; though monstrous, we should not avoid them. I immediately stopped my car and, smiling wickedly, pulled out the monstrous bag. The stranger was so monstrous in size that he was extremely terrified and stunned. Synonyms huge, enormous, massive, great, gigantic, giant, colossal, mammoth, vast, immense, tremendous, mighty, stupendous, monumental, epic, prodigious, mountainous, titanic, towering, elephantine, king-sized, king-size, gargantuan, Herculean, Brobdingnagian, substantial informal mega, monster, whopping, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, humongous, jumbo, hulking British informal whacking, whacking great, ginormous Derivatives monstrously adverb ˈmɒnstrəsliˈmɑnztrəsli In the very next paragraph, he remarks: ‘It is monstrously premature to think that the threat has passed. Example sentencesExamples Dolly is about five times the size of a dog, and she's monstrously fast and strong. The proposals - which were widely condemned as monstrously intrusive and constituting a gross infringement of privacy and liberty - have been withdrawn for further consultation. And, today, the monstrously ugly thing was demolished and removed, leaving the patch of ground clear for flowers, shrubs and trees. The public sector is still monstrously big and squeezes out the private sector. monstrousness noun The word homicide is wholly inadequate to convey the monstrousness of such a culture. Example sentencesExamples The Nazi crimes, it seems to me, explode the limits of the law; and that is precisely what constitutes their monstrousness. Did the war make him monstrous, or was the war a product of his monstrousness? Then all too rapidly, the horror and monstrousness began to sink in. Probably they have become numb to the monstrousness of their actions. Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'strange or unnatural'): from Old French monstreux or Latin monstrosus, from monstrum (see monster). Current senses date from the 16th century. Definition of monstrous in US English: monstrous adjectiveˈmänstrəsˈmɑnstrəs 1Having the ugly or frightening appearance of a monster. 丑陋的；可怕的 monstrous, bug-eyed fish 眼睛暴突的怪鱼。 Example sentencesExamples Some are like horses, others like monstrous turtles, many resemble wicked snakes, and the list continues. Something lived in that house, thought the oldest kids in the neighborhood, something dark, evil, monstrous. After a good night's rest, the couple resume their journey appearing more refreshed and less monstrous. Its appearance seemed to represent a monstrous wolf, with long brown fur that swept down its back and belly. Using its enormous head, the monstrous creature rammed a gaping hole in the wall. Their masks are slovenly and childish - many are monstrous; none of them can see how grotesque they are. There were cries of excitement and horror as a monstrous serpent and a giant spider came on to the train, sending shivers down one's spine. The next moment a hideous, grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. In nineteenth-century France several freak shows were banned for fear that the shocking spectacles would cause women to bear monstrous children. Then I locked into a better fish that I thought must be a roach but I was to be proved wrong when a monstrous dace came to the surface. Soon other beasties are popping up, and Roger is forced to deal with the house's evil apparitions and monstrous demons. In a bid to protect herself she invents an imaginary friend - a huge, monstrous beast called the Gruffalo. Grendel lives, with his monstrous mother, at the bottom of a foul lake, which a variety of other monsters inhabit. Then, bursting out from behind the trees, the same monstrous face appeared beneath a dark hood. She was in no state to argue, nor to mask herself as a horrible monstrous creation. She regarded the monstrous creature with wide, terrified eyes of pure confusion. She may have had a beautiful, attractive body but once the fan went down, you would see a horrible, gruesome, monstrous, ugly face. It was from this odd dream that Jane woke to a spectre moving about in her room, the form of a hideous and monstrous woman emerging from her very own closet. Then he opens his robe to reveal to Scrooge two hideous and monstrous children that cling to the ghost's robe. Overhead them was a huge, monstrous and extremely ugly bird drooling over them. Synonyms grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrendous, horrifying, grisly, disgusting, repulsive, repellent, revolting, nightmarish, dreadful, frightening, terrifying, fearsome, freakish, malformed, misshapen, unnatural, abnormal, mutant, miscreated 1.1 (of a person or an action) inhumanly or outrageously evil or wrong. （人，行为）邪恶的，骇人听闻的 he wasn't lovable, he was monstrous and violent 他不可爱，他邪恶又暴虐。 it is a monstrous waste of money 这样浪费钱是骇人听闻的。 Example sentencesExamples We are overall reminded of how brutal, vile and monstrous the Nazi regime truly was and why we had to completely destroy them in order to prevent any chance of their coming back. Any country that would even seriously consider such a monstrous act certainly isn't going to be shown mercy when war is brought to its civilian population. Besides these monstrous and horrifying thoughts, the uncontrolled practice of cloning also threatens the dignity of humankind. To those involved in any way with this monstrous evil, I say to you that this is your first and only chance. One's first reaction, apart from deep grief, is outrage that such a monstrous attack against innocent civilians, against children is possible. How could such a cruel, monstrous decision exist on the earth? There was something incredibly monstrous about the inhuman way it could not be stopped. But I'm still troubled by the fact that they could even consider doing something so monstrous. But that rage alone is not enough to drive people to monstrous acts of violence. They deem insignificant sins that the church considered monstrous only a few generations ago. It was denounced by one outraged commentator as ‘a monstrous departure from the dignity and propriety of journalism’. It is monstrous because it is morally bankrupt to threaten nuclear holocaust against millions of innocent persons and against the center of a world religion. The 1994 genocide in Rwanda is a monstrous atrocity hanging over the conscience of the world. I think virtually everyone in the contemporary world would find such a project morally monstrous. But what of a wicked lord who hides his monstrous desire for rule and seduces a nation - as well as its queen - into electing him to the highest office in the land? These bogus safety issues and courses are a monstrous waste of money. They say that he has treated his own people with such monstrous disregard for human life that we cannot assume he will be deterred by a threat to destroy his nation in time of war. The destruction of someone's home is a huge and monstrous punishment - was their ‘crime’ really that bad? It is the horribly ordinary condition of militarised men made monstrous by war. Synonyms appalling, abhorrent, heinous, evil, wicked, abominable, terrible, horrible, dreadful, hideous, foul, vile 1.2 Extremely and dauntingly large. 巨大的，庞大的 the monstrous tidal wave swamped the surrounding countryside 巨潮淹没了周围乡村。 Example sentencesExamples Nobody wants to come home to an ugly building, or worse, live opposite a monstrous, modern carbuncle and it seems builders and developers are at long last beginning to realise this. She looked at one of the frogs, a big homely one with a gigantic mouth and monstrous warts. They are organisms that, though gigantic, exist not to be frightening; though monstrous, we should not avoid them. With his ear against the moist earth, Jason heard a monstrous rumble and the ground shook hundreds of times more violently than it would have in an earthquake. In the direction that Maria heard the sound of wind, she could see what appeared to be a monstrous pile of blankets. The protagonists are not overwhelmed by the monstrous power of Nature but by their own little flaws and fears which come to the surface when the mission suffers an inevitable setback. I stood there in the middle of the hall watching a huge - enormous - monstrous suitcase. Charlie's dad is an immense, monstrous presence at the centre of the film. At 12.59 am, a massive deep sea quake struck just off the coast of Indonesia, sparking a tidal wave of monstrous proportions. The stranger was so monstrous in size that he was extremely terrified and stunned. For many of the passengers, the trail of devastation left behind by the monstrous tidal waves, is still fresh in their memory. I immediately stopped my car and, smiling wickedly, pulled out the monstrous bag. A beautiful dive at 20m, I saw huge coral formations and monstrous sea fans. Synonyms huge, enormous, massive, great, gigantic, giant, colossal, mammoth, vast, immense, tremendous, mighty, stupendous, monumental, epic, prodigious, mountainous, titanic, towering, elephantine, king-sized, king-size, gargantuan, herculean, brobdingnagian, substantial Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘strange or unnatural’): from Old French monstreux or Latin monstrosus, from monstrum (see monster). Current senses date from the 16th century.
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