define monstrous
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- frightful or hideous, especially in appearance; extremely ugly. 2. shocking or revolting; outrageous: monstrous cruelty. 3. extraordinarily great; huge; immense: a monstrous building.
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monster monster. n. 1. (Classical Myth & Legend) an imaginary beast, such as a centaur, usually made up of various animal or human parts. 2. (Biology) a person, animal, or plant with a marked structural deformity. 3. a cruel, wicked, or inhuman person.
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Definitions &Translations A monster is any creature, usually found in legends or horror fiction, that is often hideous and may produce fear or physical harm by its appearance or its actions. The word monster derives from Latin monstrum, meaning an aberrant occurrence, usually biological, that was taken as a sign that something was wrong within the natural order.
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colossal adjective huge, massive, vast, enormous, immense, titanic, gigantic, monumental, monstrous, mammoth, mountainous, stellar (informal), prodigious, gargantuan, fuck-off (offensive taboo slang), herculean, elephantine, ginormous (informal), humongous or humungous (U.S. slang) A colossal statue stands in the square.
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monstrous Examples. 1  If I were assembling an all-star touring band called The Monsters of Jazz, the first guy I'd call would be James Carter: At 42, the saxophonist has chops, technique, concepts and energy enough to justify several definitions of the term monstrous..
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- SYNONYMS: unnatural sex; unnatural sin. 2. Any sexual practice banned by law such as sodomy and necrophilia. SYNONYMS: abominable crime against nature; detestable crime against nature. QUOTE: Bruce Rodgers. The Queens' Vernacular (1972): ' I'm not uptight about dying an unnatural death - I just want to die in an unnatural act.' 188 were donated in January This month, we are on track to donate 192 home recent additions webmaster page banners feed a child
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monstrous 1. frightful, esp. in appearance; extremely ugly. 2. shocking or revolting; outrageous: monstrous cruelty. 3. extraordinarily great; immense: a monstrous building. 4. having the nature or appearance of a fabulous monster. adv.
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- mon•ster /ˈmɑnstɚ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]. adj. [before a noun]. See-mon-. 1  Pathologyany animal or human that is different from a normal shape or character; any creature ugly enough to frighten people:monsters of myth and legend. 2  one who causes horror by wickedness, cruelty, etc.:Those monsters slaughter innocent people! 3  any animal or thing huge in size.
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- See Tremble.] Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall. [1913 Webster] A tremendous mischief was a foot.
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- Giants are beings of human appearance but prodigious size and strength common in the mythology and legends of many different cultures. The word giant, coined in 1297, was derived from the Gigantes (Greek: Γίγαντες, Gígantes) of Greek mythology.
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monster 1 An example of a monster is a child who cannot behave in public and who throws temper tantrums all the time. 2  An example of a monster is a huge book that is 5000 pages long; a monster of a book. 3  An example of a monster is a an imaginary frightening creature that your child fears is hiding under his bed at night.
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- 1A huge or monstrous creature. ‘behemoths like the brontosaurus’. ‘The mountains themselves appeared the spiny backbones or monstrous prehistoric behemoths that were buried in thousands of layers of earth, and trying in vain to free themselves.’. ‘A huge behemoth stumped through the side of the house, carefully splashing a thin, clear watery substance from a large can onto the house.’.
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- monster noun [C] (CREATURE). B1 any ​imaginary ​frightening ​creature, ​especially one that is ​large and ​strange: a ​sea monster ​prehistoric monsters the Loch Ness monster. More examples. 1  The monster ​ roared and gnashed ​ its ​ teeth.
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Gothic Genre Definition? Gothic is an offshoot of Romantic, which tries to inspire strong emotion in the reader; Gothic most typically exploits the emotion of fear. Also, the grotesque is an important idea in Gothic literature; the grotesque simultaneously disgusts and arouses pity, so the vampire is a perfect example.Frankenstein's monster and people with a mental illness, like Rochester's wife in Jane Eyre, inspire a similar mixture of pity and revulsion.ne of the many things the teacher wants us to do is to describe what gothic genre is. In a way i know it... but i just don't know how to word it.
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- Parents: grotesque-literature. Related: satire-literature of the absurd. Connoisseurs: Joyce Carol Oates-Philip Thomson The basic definition of the grotesque: the unresolved clash of incompatibles in work and response.It is significant this clash is paralleled by the ambivalent nature of the abnormal as present in the grotesque: we might consider a secondary definition of the grotesque to be the 'ambivalently abnormal'.n fiction, a character is usually considered a grotesque if he induces both empathy and disgust. (A character who inspires disgust alone is simply a villain or a monster.) Obvious examples would include the physically deformed and the mentally deficient, but people with cringe-worthy social traits are also included.
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horrific Word Origin and History for horrific Expand. adj. causing horror, 1650s, from French horrifique or directly from Latin horrificus dreadful, exciting terror, literally making the hair stand on end, from horrere to bristle, to stand on end (see horror) + -ficus, from stem of facere to make, do (see factitious). Related: Horrifically.
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- cru·el·er, cru·el·est, or cru·el·ler cru·el·lest. 1  Disposed to inflict pain or suffering: a cruel tyrant. 2  Causing or characterized by severe pain, suffering, or distress: cruel treatment; a cruel remark. Origin of cruel Middle English from Old French from Latin crūdēlis; see kreuə-in Indo-European roots.
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Calories in Soft-Serve Banana 'Ice Cream' Calories per Ingredient. Here are the foods from our food nutrition database that were used for the nutrition calculations of this recipe. Calories per serving of Soft-Serve Banana 'Ice Cream'. 105 calories of Banana, fresh, (1 medium (7 to 7-7/8 long)) Calories in Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins.
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fantasy Definition of fantasy for English Language Learners. : 1  something that is produced by the imagination : an idea about doing something that is far removed from normal reality. : 2  the act of imagining something. : 3  a book, movie, etc., that tells a story about things that happen in an imaginary world.
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i Definition of mythical. 1 : based on or described in a myth especially as contrasted with history. 2 usually mythical : existing only in the imagination : fictitious, imaginary constructed a mythical all-star team. 3 usually mythic : having qualities suitable to myth : legendary the twilight of a mythic professional career — Clayton Riley.
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- Nevertheless, Leviathan is of so mighty a magnitude, all his proportions are so stately, that the same deficiency which in the sculptured Jove were hideous, in him is no blemish at all. Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context.
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Elements of Fantasy: Ogres and Ogresses An ogre is a grotesque creature with animalistic strength that eats human flesh. The Latin term, orcus, referred to the god of the underworld. They were the brainless wits who clobbered people for no apparent reason and hoarded their victims’ valuables.
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grotesque Definition of grotesque. 1a : a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricatureb : a piece of work in this style an ornate structure, embellished with grotesques. 2 : one that is grotesque.
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Definitions &Translations Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word brute. Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat(noun) a cruelly rapacious person. animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna(adj) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
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- adjective, wretcheder, wretchedest. 1. very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable; pitiable. 2. characterized by or attended with misery and sorrow. 3. despicable, contemptible, or mean: a wretched miser. 4. poor, sorry, or pitiful; worthless:
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- Domination means total control. Most comic book villains — and a few real people, too — spend their lives in pursuit of world domination. This word conveys the idea not just of leadership, but of absolute, unchallengeable authority.