Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English homepage

monstrous

 adjective
     
mon‧strous
1 very wrong, immoral, or unfair:
It's monstrous to charge that much for a hotel room.
Such monstrous injustice is hard to understand.
2 unusually large:
a monstrous nose
3 unnatural or ugly and frightening [= hideous]:
a monstrous shadow on the stairs
—monstrously adverb:
He was ugly and monstrously fat.
It was monstrously unfair.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

Dictionary pictures of the day
Do you know what each of these is called?
What is the word for picture 1? What is the word for picture 2? What is the word for picture 3? What is the word for picture 4?
Click on any of the pictures above to find out what it is called.

Explore our topic dictionary

Browse the dictionary