monstrous
US: /ˈmɑnstɹəs/
UK: /mˈɒnstɹəs/
UK: /mˈɒnstɹəs/
English Vietnamese dictionary
monstrous /'mɔnstrəs/
- tính từ
- kỳ quái, quái dị
- khổng lồ
- gớm guốc, tàn ác, ghê gớm (tội ác...)
- (thông tục) hoàn toàn vô lý, hoàn toàn sai
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective
1 considered to be shocking and unacceptable because it is morally wrong or unfair: a monstrous lie / injustice
2 very large: a monstrous wave
3 very large, ugly and frightening: a monstrous figure / creature
monstrously adverb: monstrously unfair + a monstrously fat man
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 awful, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrendous, horrifying, hideous, ugly, nightmarish, dreadful, heinous, grisly, gruesome, disgusting, nauseous, nauseating, repulsive, repellent, revolting, frightful, grotesque, hellish, ghoulish, freakish, fiendish, barbaric, barbarous, savage, inhuman, merciless, ruthless, brutal, brutish, beastly:
How could anyone treat another human being with such monstrous cruelty!
2 outrageous, shocking, scandalous, atrocious, appalling, wicked, villainous, evil, vile, insensitive, cruel, base, debased, shameful, shameless, infamous, disgraceful, nefarious, egregious, foul, vicious, flagitious, loathsome, depraved:
It is monstrous to suggest that money could compensate for the loss of a child. It was a monstrous trick to make him think he had failed the exam when he'd got the top mark
3 gigantic, giant, huge, vast, enormous, colossal, monster, gargantuan, jumbo, immense, tremendous, titanic, prodigious, massive, towering, elephantine, mammoth:
They are planning to build a monstrous shopping mall in the town centre.
Concise English dictionary
'mɑn'strɑs /'mɒ-
adj.
+abnormally large
+shockingly brutal or cruel
+distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
