monstrous

adj

1. Hideous or frightful.

   “So bad a death argues a monstrous life.”

2. Enormously large.

   “a monstrous height”

   “The chiding billovv ſeemes to pelt the cloudes, / The vvinde ſhak'd ſurge, vvith high and monſtrous mayne, / Seemes to caſt vvater, on the burning Beare, […]”

   “Possibly monster pumpkins may become still more monstrous by the shoots being ringed, and so may other vegetables and fruits where quality is of less importance than mere size.”

   “Mr. Burns is similarly perfectly cast as a heartless capitalist willing to do anything for a quick buck, even if it means endangering the lives of those around him and Marge elegantly rounds out the main cast as a good, pure-hearted and overly indulgent woman who sees the big, good heart (literally and metaphorically) of a monstrous man-brute.”

3. Freakish or grotesque.

   “The irregular and monstrous births”

   “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.

   “Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.”

5. (obsolete)Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical.

   “The whole story was monstrous, and only worthy of the superstitious days in which it was written.”

6. (derogatory, offensive)Disabled; crippled. (A severe slur used to describe persons with disabilities.)