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MONSTROUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monstrously mean? 

MONSTROUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb MONSTROUSLY has 3 senses:

1. in a hideous mannerplay

2. in a terribly evil mannerplay

3. in a grotesque mannerplay

  Familiarity information: MONSTROUSLY used as an adverb is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


MONSTROUSLY (adverb)


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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