| 单词 | monstrous |
| 释义 | monstrous (mɒnstrəs ) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe a situation or event as monstrous, you mean that it is extremely shocking or unfair. She endured the monstrous behaviour for years. I just hope the people who committed this monstrous evil will be able to live with themselves. Synonyms: outrageous, shocking, evil, horrifying monstrously adverb [ADVERB after verb] Your husband's family has behaved monstrously. 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe an unpleasant thing as monstrous, you mean that it is extremely large in size or extent. [emphasis] ...a monstrous copper edifice. It was blowing a monstrous gale. monstrously adverb [ADVERB adjective/-ed] It would be monstrously unfair. Monstrously inflated prices are designed to keep people like us at bay. 3. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe something as monstrous, you mean that it is extremely frightening because it appears unnatural or ugly. ...the film's monstrous fantasy figure. Synonyms: unnatural, terrible, horrible, dreadful Collocations: monstrous crime The evidence of a monstrous crime is compelling. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Let's not forget that the perpetrator of this monstrous crime remains at large. Times, Sunday Times (2011) This monstrous crime was not carried out in the name of a religion which claims to be peaceful but whose fanatics boast: 'You love life. The Sun (2014) It has been a sporting injustice of monstrous proportions. Times, Sunday Times It works in the manner of a vaccination: details are blown up into monstrous proportions and apocalyptic scenarios are conjured up. The Times Literary Supplement In the absence of ground predators, invertebrates have reached monstrous proportions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Year by year, this unseen entity grows to monstrous proportions, requiring the two men to make frequent modifications to their residence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It follows the story of a crash-landed alien that finds refuge in the basement of a house and grows to monstrous proportions, eating those unlucky enough to venture down. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The neat box hedges reached a monstrous size, and many of the buildings and terraces subsided. Times, Sunday Times Not the monstrous size of the tyres. Times, Sunday Times They deliver very little energy for their monstrous size. The Sun He could also now grow to monstrous size. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Bores in other parts of the world can reach monstrous sizes. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 骇人听闻的 Japanese: 全くひどい |
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