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fiendish

English

Etymology

fiend +? -ish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?fi?nd??/

Adjective

fiendish (comparative more fiendish, superlative most fiendish)

  1. Sinister; evil; like a fiend.
    Synonym: conniving
  2. very difficult

Derived terms

  • fiendishly
  • fiendishness

Translations

Anagrams

  • finished

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monstrous

English

Etymology

From Middle English monstrous, from Old French monstrueuse, monstrüos, from Latin m?nstr?sus. Compare monstruous.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?m?nst??s/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?nst??s/
  • Hyphenation: mon?strous

Adjective

monstrous (comparative more monstrous, superlative most monstrous)

  1. Hideous or frightful.
  2. Enormously large.
    a monstrous height
  3. Freakish or grotesque.
    • The irregular and monstrous births
    • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The rule and exercises of holy living
      He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love […] is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.
  4. Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
  5. (obsolete) Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:gigantic

Translations

Middle English

Adjective

monstrous

  1. Alternative form of monstruous

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