noun
Meaning 1
An organism showing abnormal development or deformity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: monster
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
monstrosity
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /mɒnˈstɹɒsɪti/
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rhymes with -ɒsɪti
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CMU ARPABET: M AA0 N S T R AA1 S AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A monstrous person, thing, or act.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: monster
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The state of being monstrous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: monstrousness
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
something hideous or frightful
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: malformation, miscreation
noun
Meaning 5
a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: freak, monster, lusus naturae
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mutant, mutation, variation, sport
Narrower terms: leviathan
History
Etymology
From Middle English monstruosite, from Middle French monstruosité and its etymon Late Latin mōnstruōsitās, mōnstrōsitās (“monstrousness”), from Latin mōnstruōsus, mōnstrōsus; by surface analysis, monstrous + -ity.
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: gedrog — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Albanian: gjë e shëmtuar — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Bulgarian: чудовище (čudovište) — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Chinese Mandarin: 怪物 (guàiwu) — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Danish: skrummel — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Dutch: wangedrocht — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Esperanto: monstraĵo — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Esperanto: abomenaĵo — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Finnish: hirvitys — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Finnish: rumilus — Monstrous thing, person or act
- French: monstruosité — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Galician: monstruosidade — Monstrous thing, person or act
- German: Monstrosität — Monstrous thing, person or act
- German: Monstrum — Monstrous thing, person or act
- German: Ungeheuer — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Greek: τερατούργημα (teratoúrgima) — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Hebrew: מפלצתיות — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Japanese: 怪異 (kaii) — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Norwegian: uhyrlighet — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Persian: هیولایی (hayulāyi) — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Polish: potworność — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Portuguese: monstruosidade — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Romanian: monstruozitate — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Russian: чудо́вище (čudóvišče) — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Spanish: monstruosidad — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Ukrainian: жахливість (žaxlyvistʹ) — Monstrous thing, person or act
- Bulgarian: чудовищност (čudovištnost) — State of being monstrous
- Dutch: monstruositeit — State of being monstrous
- Dutch: misvorming — State of being monstrous
- Dutch: wanstaltigheid — State of being monstrous
- Finnish: hirviömäisyys — State of being monstrous
- French: monstruosité — State of being monstrous
- Galician: monstruosidade — State of being monstrous
- German: Ungeheuerlichkeit — State of being monstrous
- German: Monstrosität — State of being monstrous
- Irish: anchúinseacht — State of being monstrous
- Persian: هیولایی (hayulāyi) — State of being monstrous
- Polish: potworność — State of being monstrous
- Portuguese: monstruosidade — State of being monstrous
- Russian: чудо́вищность (čudóviščnostʹ) — State of being monstrous
- Spanish: monstruosidad — State of being monstrous