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单词 monstrous
释义
monstrous
adjective
uk
/ˈmɒn.strəs/us
/ˈmɑːn.strəs/

monstrousadjective(BAD)

verycruel:
丑恶的；残酷的；骇人听闻的
a monstrouscrime残暴的罪行
monstrouscruelty骇人听闻的残酷行径
But that's monstrous - he can't beallowedto get away with it!但那实在太骇人听闻了——不能让他逍遥法外！
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Morally wrong and evil
  • abhorrent
  • amoral
  • amorality
  • anomie
  • antichrist
  • disgrace
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • dissolutely
  • dissoluteness
  • no more Mr Nice Guyidiom
  • non-ethical
  • obscene
  • obscenely
  • obscenity
  • turpitude
  • unconscionable
  • unconscionably
  • unethical
  • unprincipled
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monstrousadjective(CREATURE)

like amonster:
像怪兽的；骇人的
Theillustrationsshow monstrousbeastswithbodieslikebearsandheadsliketigers.这些插图展示了怪异的野兽，它们身体像熊，头部像虎。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Serious and unpleasant
  • abominable
  • abominably
  • abysmal
  • abysmally
  • apocalyptic
  • fiendish
  • fraught
  • frightful
  • from hellidiom
  • fun
  • nightmarish
  • nightmarishly
  • noisome
  • not be all fun and gamesidiom
  • objectionable
  • vile
  • woeful
  • woefully
  • wretchedly
  • yucky
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(Definition ofmonstrousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

monstrous| American Dictionary

monstrous
adjective
us
/ˈmɑn·strəs/

monstrousadjective(BIG)

verybad,esp. because toobig:
After thefloodshe wasfacedwith monstrousrepairbills.

monstrousadjective(EVIL)

extremelyevil:
monstrousdeeds
(Definition ofmonstrousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmonstrous

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Images with a didactic purpose such as scriptural narratives, providential warnings throughmonstrousbirths, or abstract, emblematic pictures were widely accepted.
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In him, too, our fear of modernity'smonstrousaspect is projected onto an elemental hatred of the" other".
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The modern chorus had swollen out of control: it wasmonstrous, indefinable and stubborn.
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From this perspective, ritual specialists who found judicial evidence in the suspect's body through ordeal or autopsy illustrated themonstrous, regressive state of local politics.
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Not having public relations, goes forward withmonstrouswomen.
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My autobiography is always the autobiography of amonstrousrevenant.
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They pile themselves in amonstrousshapeless clot, men and women clinging indiscriminately together, like a bunch of toads at spawning time.
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To so violate the terms of the nurturing, self-sacrificing womanly ideal would make hermonstrous.
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Ten times moremonstrousthan he is in troth.
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Again alternative genealogies and histories loom as something far moremonstrousthan demons that could be cast within a 'bad phase' of history or life.
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Women who enter the world of men, follow male rules, and win male rewards in power and money are somehowmonstrous.
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Monstrousheads and forms are also occasionally included (59r).
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Working together allows us to fabricatemonstrousversions of normal situations and to elaborate patterns of thinking which make sense of an invented scenario.
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He has thought up the mostmonstrousof schemes, a totalitarian control of female nature, a complete physical, intellectual and moral enslavement.
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Whatmonstrousfolly to teach him to wince and cry out at the sufferings of other people!
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