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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)
- Hideous or frightful.
- Enormously large.
- a monstrous height
- 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.
- Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
- (obsolete) Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Translations
Middle English
Adjective
monstrous
- Alternative form of monstruous
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beastly
English
Etymology
From Middle English beestly, bestely, beastelich, equivalent to beast +? -ly. Compare West Frisian bistachtich (“beastly”), Dutch beestachtig (“beastly”), German biestig (“beastly”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bi?stli/
- Rhymes: -i?stli
Adjective
beastly (comparative beastlier or more beastly, superlative beastliest or most beastly)
- (Britain) Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
- (Britain) Similar to the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man
- Synonyms: brutal, filthy
- (Britain, dated) Abominable.
- (of computing hardware) Powerful, having a powerful appearance
- 2010, January 11, Matthew DeCarlo, “Silverstone mini-ITX case can fit Radeon HD 5970”, TechSpot:
- In addition to a Core i7-860 with a full-sized heatsink and 4GB of DDR3 RAM, the company showed its SUGO SG07 housing today's most beastly graphics card, the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970, which is about 30cm long.
- 2014, March 21, Tycho de Feijter, “Hummer H2 is a Big Black Beast in the Rain in China”, CarNewsChina.com:
- A very big, very black, and very beastly Hummer H2, Spotted in China in in the rain the great city of Zigong in Sichuan Province.
- 2018, October 16, Chris Smith, “Huawei just unveiled the most beastly Android phone the world has ever seen”, BGR:
- Huawei’s Mate 20 phones have instantly become the best iPhone XS rivals out there, at least on paper, and the high-end model is easily the most beastly Android phone the world has seen so far.
- 2010, January 11, Matthew DeCarlo, “Silverstone mini-ITX case can fit Radeon HD 5970”, TechSpot:
Usage notes
Most often used pejoratively, but sense 4 has predominantly positive connotations. Bestial is more narrow, though also often used pejoratively.
Synonyms
- (like a beast): bestial, animalian
Derived terms
- beastliness
Translations
Adverb
beastly (comparative more beastly, superlative most beastly)
- Like a beast; brutishly.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.8:
- Beastly he threwe her downe, ne car'd to spill / Her garments gay with scales of fish that all did fill.
- 1901, The Literary World - Volume 63 - Page 35:
- They have insulted me most beastly. Moreover, they are, everyone of them, black-satan filthmen.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.8:
Anagrams
- baetyls
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