Entry Word: monstrous

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 badly or imperfectly formed <a monstrous melon that was clearly not fit to eat> — see malformed
2 extremely disturbing or repellent <the monstrous measures taken by the dictator against anyone who opposed his regime> — see horrible 1
3 unusually large <a monstrous tomato as big as a basketball> — see huge