monstrous

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. huge, enormous; hideous, terrifying, revolting; fiendish, heinous; abnormal, freakish. See size, ugliness, unconformity, distortion.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Huge]

Syn. stupendous, prodigious, enormous; see large 1 .

2. [Unnatural]

Syn. abnormal, preposterous, uncanny; see unnatural 1 , unusual 2 .

3. [Shocking]

Syn. horrible, terrible, atrocious; see frightful 1 , outrageous , terrible 1 .

See Synonym Study at outrageous .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

1. grotesque hideous, abnormal, mutated, unnatural, repulsive, freakish, teratoid, weird, wild, outlandish, bizarre, otherworldly, beastly, frightful, shocking.

2. huge gigantic, gargantuan, colossal, stupendous, hulking, enormous, titanic, immense, mammoth, towering.

3. evil atrocious, satanic, revolting, heinous, hateful, gruesome, loathsome, vile, horrible.

4. outrageous shocking, incredible, ridiculous, astonishing.

ANT.: 1. normal, natural, beautiful. 2. tiny, wee, small. 3. good, moral, angelic. 4. normal, reasonable

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Disgracefully and grossly offensive: atrocious, heinous, outrageous, scandalous, shocking. Archaic: enormous. See RIGHT. 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. 3. Resembling a freak: freakish, freaky, grotesque. See USUAL.