monstrousとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnstɹəs/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒnstɹəs/
  • ハイフネーション: mon‧strous

形容詞

monstrous (comparative more monstrous, superlative most monstrous)

1. Hideous or frightful.
   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii]:

     So bad a death argues a monstrous life.

2. Enormously large.

   a monstrous height

   • 1901 December 20, “The Ringing of Plants”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎^[1], volume 4, number 21, page 663:

     Possibly monster pumpkins may become still more monstrous by the shoots being ringed, and so may other vegetables and fruits where quality is of less importance than mere size.

3. Freakish or grotesque.
   • 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 3, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242:

     The irregular and monstrous births

   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The rule and exercises of holy living

     He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love […] is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.

4. Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
   • 1637, John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, OCLC 606951673:

     Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.

5. (obsolete) Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical.
   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[2]:

     The whole story was monstrous, and only worthy of the superstitious days in which it was written.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:gigantic