Hideous or frightful.
So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
Enormously large.
a monstrous height
Freakish or grotesque.
The irregular and monstrous births
From Middle English monstrous, from Old French monstrueuse, monstrüos, from Latin mōnstrōsus. Compare monstruous. By surface analysis, monster + -ous.
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