FromMiddle Englishmonstrous, fromOld Frenchmonstrueuse,monstrüos, fromLatinmōnstrōsus. Comparemonstruous. Bysurface analysis,monster +-ous.
monstrous (comparativemoremonstrous,superlativemostmonstrous)
- Hideous orfrightful.
c.1596–1599 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […].Epilogue.”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene iii]:So bad a death argues amonstrous life.
- Enormouslylarge.
amonstrous height
c.1603–1604 (date written),William Shakespeare,The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] forThomas Walkley, […], published1622,→OCLC,[Act II, scene i],page21:The chiding billovv ſeemes to pelt the cloudes, / The vvinde ſhak'd ſurge, vvith high andmonſtrous mayne, / Seemes to caſt vvater, on the burning Beare,[…]
1901 December 20, “The Ringing of Plants”, inThe Agricultural Journal and Mining Record[1], volume 4, number21, page663:Possibly monster pumpkins may become still moremonstrous by the shoots being ringed, and so may other vegetables and fruits where quality is of less importance than mere size.
- Freakish orgrotesque.
1650,Jeremy Taylor,The rule and exercises of holy living:He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love[…] is unnatural andmonstrous in his affections.
- Of, or relating to amythicalmonster; full of monsters.
1637,John Milton, “Lycidas”, inPoems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth forHumphrey Mosely, […], published1646,→OCLC:Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of themonstrous world.
- (obsolete)Marvellous; exceedinglystrange;fantastical.
- (offensive, derogatory) Asevere insult that is used to describe adisabled person.
hideous or frightful
- Asturian:monstruosu
- Bulgarian:чудовищен (bg)(čudovišten)
- Catalan:monstruós
- Finnish:hirveä (fi),hirvittävä (fi)
- French:monstrueux (fr)
- Galician:monstruoso (gl)
- German:ungeheuerlich (de),monströs (de)
- Greek:τερατώδης (el)(teratódis)
- Ancient:ἄπλατος(áplatos),πελώριος(pelṓrios)
- Italian:mostruoso (it)
- Lithuanian:siaubingas
- Occitan:monstruós (oc)
- Polish:monstrualny (pl)
- Portuguese:monstruoso (pt)
- Romanian:monstruos (ro),hidos (ro),oribil (ro)
- Russian:чудо́вищный (ru)(čudóviščnyj),отврати́тельный (ru)(otvratítelʹnyj)
- Spanish:monstruoso (es)
- Swedish:monstruös (sv),vidunderlig (sv),ohygglig (sv),grotesk (sv),hisklig (sv)
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of, or relating to a mythical monster
Translations to be checked
monstrous
- alternative form ofmonstruous
