Term Gallery logo

Meanings of monstrous in English

Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous.

Related terms

Shockingly brutal or cruel.

Related terms
Synonyms
Examples for "unnatural"
Examples for "unnatural"
1
Slightly unnatural, shoehorned in with good intentions despite not fitting quite right.
The Irish Times
2
In an unnatural situation, this was the most natural place for her.
The Guardian
3
He actually looked quite cute, in an entirely disturbing and unnatural way.
A Hard Day’s Knight
4
To accuse yourself is the natural thing; silence is the unnatural thing.
Great Possessions
5
The woman in the narrow bed tossed in a heavy, unnatural sleep.
Out of the Ashes
1
Yet still we construct a grotesque edifice that denies such common sense.
The Guardian
2
He saw in the garden more corpses in tragic and grotesque postures.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
3
It is hard to imagine ourselves as the perpetrators of grotesque violence.
The Irish Times
4
My mind had apparently updated his grotesque to conform to new information.
Seraphina
5
She did not see the grotesque and ghostly objects in the gloom.
Their Yesterdays

Monstrous.

Related terms
Usage of monstrous in English
1
This monstrous suspension bridge spans the Bosphorus strait connecting Europe to Asia.
The Irish Times
2
I have seen slavery; own slaves: there is nothing monstrous in it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 / A Magaz...
3
Attention to this monstrous crime has been slow coming and sadly predictable.
The Guardian
4
All this was nothing, in appearance; in reality, it was monstrous, amazing.
The Honor of the Name
5
A crisis seemed to rise up monstrous between them, in an instant.
Hilda Lessways
6
His not bringing the letter seemed monstrous; and so indeed it was.
A Simpleton
7
The flower of the Roman patriciate was wallowing in this monstrous treachery.
"Unto Caesar"
8
A monstrous 14 repeated itself stubbornly along the gorgeous reach of it.
Somewhere in Red Gap
9
That was such a monstrous crime that Edklinth felt yet more apprehensive.
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
10
It was no longer human, but rather, a monstrous amalgamation of Humanity.
Future Lovecraft
11
Yet even more monstrous exaggerations of Nature seemed disturbingly close at hand.
At the mountains of madness
12
This doctrine of the right of the Protestant individual is merely monstrous.
John Knox and the Reformation
13
It is monstrous; but I am afraid you will not be welcome.
A Woman-Hater
14
No: some kind of monstrous thing, throbbing with a pale green light.
The passage
15
The alliance which your Cabinet has formed will appear monstrous in history.
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 09
16
For the thought that had sprung up in her mind was monstrous.
The Coast of Chance
About this term
More collocations
Monstrous through the time
Monstrous across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Less common