monstrous

English

Adjective

monstrous (comparative more monstrous, superlative most monstrous)

1. hideous or frightful
2. enormously large
3. freakish or grotesque
4. of, or relating to a mythical monster

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:gigantic

Translations

hideous or frightful

• Asturian: monstruosu (ast)
• Catalan: monstruós (ca)
• Finnish: hirveä (fi), hirvittävä (fi)
• French: monstrueux (fr)
• Galician: monstruoso (gl)
• German: ungeheuerlich (de)
• Greek: τερατώδης (el) (teratódis)

• Italian: mostruoso (it)
• Occitan: monstruós (oc)
• Portuguese: monstruoso (pt)
• Romanian: monstruos (ro), hidos (ro), oribil (ro)
• Russian: чудо́вищный (ru) (čudóviščnyj), отврати́тельный (ru) (otvratítel'nyj)
• Spanish: monstruoso (es)

enormously large

• Asturian: monstruosu (ast)
• Catalan: monstruós (ca)
• Finnish: valtava (fi), suunnaton (fi)
• French: monstrueux (fr)
• German: monströs (de)

• Greek: τεράστιος (el) (terástios)
• Italian: enorme (it), gigantesco (it)
• Romanian: enorm (ro), colosal (ro)
• Russian: чудо́вищный (ru) (čudóviščnyj)
• Spanish: monstruoso (es)

freakish or grotesque

• Catalan: monstruós (ca)
• Finnish: groteski (fi)
• Galician: monstruoso (gl)

• Greek: τερατώδης (el) (teratódis), τερατόμορφος (el) (teratómorfos)
• Romanian: cumplit (ro), atroce (ro), groaznic (ro)
• Spanish: monstruoso (es)

of, or relating to a mythical monster

• Catalan: monstruós (ca)
• Greek: θηριώδης (el) (thiriódis) m and f
• Ido: monstratra (io)

• Romanian: monstruos (ro)
• Russian: чудо́вищный (ru) (čudóviščnyj)
• Spanish: monstruoso (es)

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• Mandarin:

  Simplified: 怪异

  Traditional: 怪異

  Pinyin: guaiyi

• Dutch: monsterlijk
• Greek: τερατώδης (teratódēs)

• Japanese: 巨大 (ja) (きょだい, kyodai)
• Korean: 기괴망측한 (ko) (gigoemangcheukhan)
• Latin: monstrosus m, monstrosa f, monstrosum n
• Portuguese: monstruoso m, monstruosa f