adj.

1. Shockingly hideous or frightful.
2. Exceptionally large; enormous: a monstrous tidal wave.
3. Deviating greatly from the norm in appearance or structure; abnormal.
4. Of or resembling a fabulous monster.

[Middle English, from Old French monstruos, from Latin mōnstruōsus, from mōnstrum, portent, monster. See monster.]

monstrously mon'strous·ly adv.
monstrousness mon'strous·ness n.

adjective

1. Disgracefully and grossly offensive: atrocious, heinous, outrageous, scandalous, shocking. Archaic enormous. See right/wrong.
2. 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/small/amount.
3. Resembling a freak: freakish, freaky, grotesque. See usual/unusual.

adj

Definition: unnatural, shocking
Antonyms: average, beautiful, common, expected, good, natural, ordinary, standard

adj

Definition: very large
Antonyms: little, miniature, minute, small, tiny

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The adjective has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: abnormally large

Meaning #2: shockingly brutal or cruel
  Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, grievous, heinous

Meaning #3: distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
  Synonyms: grotesque, unnatural

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - vanskabt, misdannet, kæmpemæssig, uhyrlig

Nederlands (Dutch)
monsterachtig, enorm

Français (French)
adj. - monstrueux

Deutsch (German)
adj. - ungeheuer, monströs

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - τερατώδης, (μτφ.) εκτρωματικός

Italiano (Italian)
mostruoso

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - monstruoso

Русский (Russian)
уродливый, чудовищный, исполинский, невероятный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - monstruoso

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - missbildad, vidunderlig, ofantlig, skandalös, avskyvärd, kolossal

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
巨大的, 怪异的, 畸形的

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 巨大的, 怪異的, 畸形的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 너무 큰, 악한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 怪物のような, 奇怪な, 巨大な, 途方もない, ひどい, 恐ろしい

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) وحشي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מפלצתי, מזעזע, ענקי, מחפיר, אבסורדי‬

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