monstrosity

noun

mon·stros·i·ty | \ män-ˈsträ-sə-tē

plural monstrosities

Definition of monstrosity

1a : a malformation of a plant or animal

b : something deviating from the normal : freak

2 : the quality or state of being monstrous the monstrosity of the tsunami's devastation

3a : an object of great and often frightening size, force, or complexity this monstrosity, the atomic bomb

b : an excessively bad or shocking example The new mall is an architectural monstrosity.

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Synonyms & Antonyms for monstrosity

Synonyms

abnormality, anomaly, freak, monster

Antonyms

average, norm, normal, par, standard

Examples of monstrosity in a Sentence

Did you see the new mall? It's a monstrosity. any monstrosities born to the farm animals were sent to the agricultural college for study

Recent Examples on the Web

The West Virginian wasteland is full of familiar creatures like deathclaws, feral ghouls, and other mutated monstrosities. — Sarah Leboeuf, Ars Technica, "Two weeks in, Fallout 76 is a lonely, glitchy, flawed mess," 28 Nov. 2018 The monstrosity in Nevada will have the biggest footprint of any industrial building in the world. — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, "Watch Google's Pixel 3 Reveal Event Here, Live," 9 Oct. 2018 The monstrosities scramble over the cockpit and lunge at me even once I’m settled inside. — Andrew Webster, The Verge, "No Man’s Sky travel diary: leaving the nest," 1 Aug. 2018 But the way to fix this is not merely to turn back the hands of time and purge our collective memories of such monstrosities. — Joe Queenan, WSJ, "My Short List of Things That Need to Be ‘De-Invented’," 9 Nov. 2018 Blair, oh Blair, is in the pinkest pink floral satin monstrosity ever. — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, "Every Single Episode of Gossip Girl, Ranked," 19 Sep. 2018 And Dan Kildee, the U.S. congressman from the Flint area, blamed a bean-counting mentality, a focus on the bottom line that created monstrosities like the Flint water poisoning. — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, "Why can't Michigan solve the biggest problems like it once did?," 30 May 2018 The squat monstrosity had a spring-lever arm to launch clay disks, replicating a bird’s flight. — Liz Arnold, Longreads, "Making Peace with the Site of a Suicide," 11 July 2018 Orsino and Olivia chalk up all that monstrosity to love: An angel made them do it. — New York Times, "Review: With Help From a Gun, a ‘Twelfth Night’ Goes Dark," 14 May 2018

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