Synonyms for monstrous
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Huge
huge, hideous, big, gargantuan, ugly, grotesque, large, colossal, prodigious, atrocious, enormous, humongous informal, terrible, dreadful, mammoth, frightful, horrible, evil, heinous, stupendous, revolting, strange
2. Absurd
3. Portentous
portentous, marvelous US, marvellous UK, fabulous
Definitions
- adj. 1
Hideous or frightful.
- adj. 2
Enormously large.
- adj. 3
Freakish or grotesque.
Related words
- Word family
- monstrously monstrousness
- Phrases
- monstrous regiment
Example sentences
- huge Yesterday I went to the zoo and saw a huge walrus.
- ugly Between you and me, the fat ugly man is on a diet.
- hideous Some things get more hideous, when you clean them.
- gargantuan There is a gargantuan spider in the bathroom.
- monster One who is blinded by love admires even a monster.
- mighty There's somethin' mighty queer behind this, Scott!
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| monstrous | rising | |
| huge | rising | |
| ugly | rising | |
| hideous | rising | |
| gargantuan | rising | |
| monster | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- big1
- 4 letters
- huge1, evil2, ugly2
- 5 letters
- large1, weird1, alien3, freak1
- 6 letters
- mighty2, absurd2
- 7 letters
- strange1, monster2, titanic3, hideous3, mammoth2, heinous2
- 8 letters
- terrible3, horrible3, enormous3, fabulous3, dreadful2, colossal3, deformed2, teratoid
- 9 letters
- marvelous3, grotesque2, atrocious3, revolting3, frightful2, humongous3, shapeless2
- 10 letters
- monumental4, marvellous3, prodigious3, stupendous3, gargantuan4, portentous3
- 12 letters
- preposterous4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (evil2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- monstrueux
- Italiano
- mostruoso
- Español
- monstruoso
- Deutsch
- Ungeheuer
- Català
- monstruós