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monstrosity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of monstrosity

1 a person, thing, or event that is far from normal
  • Mythologies are often filled with strange beasts and monstrosities.
Synonyms of monstrosity

abnormality, anomaly, freak, monster
Words Related to monstrosity

abortion, malformation, miscreation, mutant, mutation

character, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, eccentric, kook, nut, oddball, screwball, weirdo

aberrant, deviant

individualist, maverick, nonconformist

curiosity, peculiarity, singularity

aberration, exception, irregularity, oddity, rarity
Near Antonyms of monstrosity

sample, specimen

commonplace, usual
Antonyms of monstrosity

average, norm, normal, par, standard
2 a strange or horrible and often frightening creature
  • filled the haunted house with all sorts of spooks and mechanical monstrosities
Synonyms of monstrosity

grotesque, monster, ogre
Words Related to monstrosity

ogress

Frankenstein

banshee, bogeyman (also bogyman), demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, fright, imp, incubus

horror, terror

abomination, anathema

abnormality, freak

mutant, mutation
3 something unpleasant to look at
  • We were glad when the city tore down that monstrosity that used to stand across from the park.
Synonyms of monstrosity

eyesore, fright, horror, mess, sight
Words Related to monstrosity

eye-catcher

blot, smear, smudge, spot, stain
Near Antonyms of monstrosity

vision
4 the quality of inspiring intense dread or dismay
  • the monstrosity of the famine
Synonyms of monstrosity

atrociousness, atrocity, awfulness, dreadfulness, frightfulness, ghastliness, grisliness, gruesomeness, hideousness, horridness, horror, repulsiveness
Words Related to monstrosity

badness, baseness, depravedness, depravity, diabolicalness, evil, evilness, foulness, heinousness, immorality, iniquitousness, iniquity, invidiousness, sinfulness, ungodliness, viciousness, vileness, wickedness

deplorableness, despicableness, detestableness, execrableness, hatefulness, loathsomeness, reprehensibleness

creepiness, eeriness, fearfulness, fearsomeness, ghoulishness, scariness

agony, anguish, hellishness, misery, torment, torture
Near Antonyms of monstrosity

agreeableness, delightfulness, pleasantness, pleasurableness

allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, desirability, desirableness
5 the state or quality of being utterly evil
  • the monstrosity of the crime
Synonyms of monstrosity

atrociousness, atrocity, badness, depravedness, depravity, diabolicalness, enormity, evilness, heinousness, hideousness, sinfulness, vileness, wickedness
Words Related to monstrosity

accursedness, baseness, cursedness, devilishness, execrableness, fiendishness, hellishness

corruption, decadence, degeneracy, pervertedness

immorality

infamy, notoriety
Near Antonyms of monstrosity

morality

chasteness, innocence, purity
Antonyms of monstrosity

goodness, righteousness, virtuousness

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