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monstrous

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monstrous in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. shockingly brutal or cruel
    "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"
    atrocious  flagitious  grievous  monstrous 
  2. distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
    "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes"
    grotesque  monstrous 
  3. abnormally large
    monstrous 
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