monstrous

monstrous
adj
1. frightful, terrifying, horrific, harrowing, hellish, awful, dreadful, Inf. scary; hideous, horrible, grotesque, horrendous, extremely ugly, repugnant, repellent, repulsive, disgusting, beastly; grisly, gruesome, ghastly, sickening, bloodcurdling, spinechilling, .lurid; cadaverous, macabre, creepy.
2. shocking, scandalous, notorious, flagrant, shameless, outrageous; loathsome, revolting, gross, foul, base, debased, vile, evil, nefarious, Obs. scelerous; horrid, terrible, nasty; infamous, ignominious, odious, contemptible, despicable, opprobrious, detestable, sordid, degenerate, depraved, heinous, vicious, atrocious, flagitious, corrupt, reprehensible, unprincipled.
3. huge, enormous, titanic, gigantic, immense, prodigious, colossal, vast, stupendous, mammoth, tremendous, gargantuan, behemothian, elephantine, Sl. humongous, giant, towering, mighty, strapping, hulking.
4. deviate, deviant, deviating, aberrant, irregular; abnormal, anomalous, anomalistic; unnatural, freakish, weird, strange, bizarre, Inf. freaky; miscreated, malformed, deformed, misshaped, misshapen, heteroclite, heteroclitical, heteromorphic, heteromorphous, teratological, teratoid, teratogenetic.

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