monstrous UK /ˈmɒnstɹəs/US /ˈmɑnstɹəs/ adjective6 •Hideous or frightful.So bad a death argues a monstrous life. — 1596 •Freakish or grotesque.The irregular and monstrous births — 1689 •Enormously large.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, […] — 1603 •Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world. — 1637 •(offensive) Disabled; crippled. (A severe slur used to describe persons with disabilities.) •(no longer used) Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical.The whole story was monstrous, and only worthy of the superstitious days in which it was written. — 1886 formsmore monstrous · monstrousest · most monstrous