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Webster 1913 Edition


Monstruous

Mon′stru-ous

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Adj.
Monstrous.
[Obs.]

Definition 2024


monstruous

monstruous

English

Adjective

monstruous (comparative more monstruous, superlative most monstruous)

  1. (now rare) Monstrous. [from 15th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
      For he was sterne and terrible by nature, […] And rather like a Gyant monstruous […].