monstruous
English
Etymology
From Middle English monstruous, from Old French monstrueuse, monstrüos, from Latin mōnstrōsus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɒnstɹʊəs/
Adjective
monstruous (comparative more monstruous, superlative most monstruous)
- (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 […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
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