喜樂美語
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    This word describes something huge — often in a way that feels shocking or a bit , not just big ('a monstrous wave', 'a monstrous bill'). It can also describe something very cruel or morally terrible ('a monstrous crime'). The feeling behind the word is always a little extreme — you would not call a slightly big dog 'monstrous', but you might call an enormous, scary one that.

    巨大駭人的；極其惡劣的

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組成monster + -ous (having the quality of).

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  • monstermonstrous means 'having the qualities of a monster' — huge, or shockingly bad

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

monstrousadj/ˈmɒnstɹəs/

  • 1

    Hideous or frightful.

    • So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
  • 2

    Enormously large.

    • a monstrous height
    • The chiding billovv ſeemes to pelt the cloudes, / The vvinde ſhak'd ſurge, vvith high and monſtrous mayne, / Seemes to caſt vvater, on the burning Beare, […]
  • 3

    Freakish or grotesque.

    • The irregular and monstrous births
    • 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.

    • Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.
  • 5

    obsoleteMarvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical.

    • The whole story was monstrous, and only worthy of the superstitious days in which it was written.
  • 6

    offensivederogatoryDisabled; crippled. (A severe slur used to describe persons with disabilities.)

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。