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MONSTROUSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does monstrously mean?
• MONSTROUSLY (adverb)
The adverb MONSTROUSLY has 3 senses:
Familiarity information: MONSTROUSLY used as an adverb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a hideous manner
Synonyms:
hideously; horridly; monstrously
Context example:
her face was hideously disfigured after the accident
Pertainym:
monstrous (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a terribly evil manner
Synonyms:
heinously; monstrously
Context example:
the child was heinously murdered
Pertainym:
monstrous (shockingly brutal or cruel)
Sense 3
Meaning:
In a grotesque manner
Synonyms:
grotesquely; monstrously
Context example:
behind the house lay two nude figures grotesquely bald, with deliberate knife-slashes marking their bodies
Pertainym:
monstrous (distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous)
Context examples
I sometimes thought that he hated even himself, so grotesquely had life dealt with him, and so monstrously.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
They were twin whirlwinds of hatred, revolving about each other monstrously.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It was a strange and frightful spectacle—the small, bunk-lined space, the floor and walls leaping and lurching, the dim light, the swaying shadows lengthening and fore-shortening monstrously, the thick air heavy with smoke and the smell of bodies and iodoform, and the inflamed faces of the men—half-men, I should call them.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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