monstrous

monstrous
1. a уродливый, безобразный
2. a чудовищный; ужасный; зверский, жестокий

monstrous crime — чудовищное преступление

nothing less than monstrous — положительно чудовищный

3. a громадный, исполинский
4. a эмоц. -усил. безобразный, недопустимый; невероятный

it is perfectly monstrous that such a thing should be allowed — ужасно , что такие вещи разрешают

Синонимический ряд:
1. abnormal (adj.) abnormal; grotesque; uncanny; unnatural
2. bizarre (adj.) bizarre; freakish; freaky
3. huge (adj.) Antaean; behemothic; big; Brobdingnagian; Bunyanesque; colossal; cracking; cyclopean; dinosauric; elephantine; enormous; fantastic; gargantuan; giant; gigantean; gigantesque; gigantic; great; Herculean; heroic; huge; immense; jumbo; leviathan; lusty; mammoth; massive; massy; mastodonic; mighty; monster; monumental; mortal; mountainous; planetary; prodigious; stupendous; titanic; towering; tremendous; vast
4. obscene (adj.) obscene; preposterous; ridiculous; unconscionable; unreasonable
5. outrageous (adj.) atrocious; cruel; crying; desperate; flagrant; heinous; outrageous; scandalous; shocking; vicious
6. terrible (adj.) dreadful; frightful; gruesome; hideous; horrendous; horrible; macabre; repulsive; revolting; terrible
Антонимический ряд:
beautiful; comely; common; commonplace; conventional; customary; delightful; diminutive; expected; fair; familiar; formal; graceful; kind; small

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