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Another word for monstrous

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monstrous

modif.

Huge
stupendous, prodigious, enormous; see large 1.
Unnatural
abnormal, preposterous, uncanny; see unnatural 1, unusual 2.
Shocking
horrible, terrible, atrocious; see frightful 1, outrageous, terrible 1. See syn. study at outrageous.

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Another word for monstrous

adjective

Disgracefully and grossly offensive:
atrocious, heinous, outrageous, scandalous, shocking. (Archaic) enormous. See right
Of extraordinary size and power:
behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast. (Informal) walloping. (Slang) whopping. See big
Resembling a freak:
freakish, freaky, grotesque. See usual

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These figures were monstrous and incredible.'
The animal attains what in this order is the monstrous size of 9 in.
The Swords of the Titans are monstrous blades, eight in number, 50 ft.
Lori always did have a way with Josh, even back when they were kids and she had a monstrous crush on him.
B, Monstrous leaf with spoon-shaped depression.

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