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as in anomaly
a person, thing, or event that is far from normal
any monstrosities born to the farm animals were sent to the agricultural college for study
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as in monster
a strange or horrible and often frightening creature
filled the haunted house with all sorts of spooks and mechanical monstrosities
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as in horror
the quality of inspiring intense dread or dismay
the monstrosity of the famine can scarcely be conveyed to those who have not witnessed it in person
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as in badness
the state or quality of being utterly evil
the monstrosity of the terrorists' actions shocked the entire civilized world
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Recent Examples of monstrosity
The hulking remains of ARC monstrosities sit amongst the ruins of our world, now peaceful and overgrown with nature.
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Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025
The monstrosity of this 100-mile-long piece of metal will do nothing to fix our immigration problem.
—Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 18 Nov. 2025
The bride thought her request for her dessert's design was simple enough, but was shocked by the monstrosity her grandmother created.
—Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
Satellite and other images starkly illustrate Melissa’s monstrosity, from its rapid intensification to the sheer power of the convection at its core.
—Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2025
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Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025
The monstrosity of this 100-mile-long piece of metal will do nothing to fix our immigration problem.
—Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 18 Nov. 2025
The bride thought her request for her dessert's design was simple enough, but was shocked by the monstrosity her grandmother created.
—Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
Satellite and other images starkly illustrate Melissa’s monstrosity, from its rapid intensification to the sheer power of the convection at its core.
—Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monstrosity
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Environmental police have deployed side-scan sonar to try to gather data and detect anomalies on the ocean floor, officials said.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Scientists subtract the temperature anomalies in the rest of the tropical Pacific from those in the region most important for El Niño.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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New Yorkers only just freed from the snow and ice left by January’s monster storm will once again face winter’s wrath.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
21 Feb. 2026
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If a monster is there, and the monster is those who escape justice or being held to account.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
21 Feb. 2026
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Ovens see a lot of messes from foods that spill onto the bottom or racks that can become burnt overtime the longer the messes sit and bake.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
19 Feb. 2026
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Robert’s large property borders a clear cut — a clearing where a pine thicket had been cut down in the summer of 2009 — leaving behind a mess of tree stumps and roots.—
Meghan O'Brien,
NBC news,
19 Feb. 2026
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Crystallizing in the early ’90s at a time when American death metal was leaning into gory extremity (and the Norwegians were just actually killing people), the style offered a whimsical counterbalance to all the shock and horror.—
Sam Goldner,
Pitchfork,
17 Feb. 2026
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An emotional mind sees horrors and fears where none exists.—
Roger Van Zanen,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 Feb. 2026
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On one side, a satanic figure named Randall Flagg who gathers his forces of badness to Las Vegas; on the other, the good guys, led by 108-year-old Mother Abigail in, of all places, Boulder.—
Barbara Ellis,
Denver Post,
15 Jan. 2026
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The show premiered over Thanksgiving weekend, when people were tired and full and bored (and probably also horny), and countered our world’s unceasing badness with its world’s buoyant sweetness.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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What’s more, radiation exposure can cause harmful mutations to the DNA in sperm—mutations that have the potential to be passed on to subsequent generations.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
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The researchers combed the data for mutations that may have caused the tumors to form and found that cancer-causing genes in cats are strikingly similar in number and variety to those in humans.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
19 Feb. 2026
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Indeed, compared with the realistically creased faces and hangdog stares of the Cubs, the Boston fans behind them are closer to grotesques, an inhuman crush of caricatures.—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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Phillips rose to prominence in the ‘90s for glossy, photorealistic paintings like Below that grappled with sexuality, beauty and the grotesque.—
Uwa Ede-Osifo,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Feb. 2026
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Standard toasters tend to be black and/or silver, which can be an eyesore in your otherwise stylish kitchen.—
Jamie Weissman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
19 Feb. 2026
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Hair products and medicine cabinet items left out on your vanity top are also major eyesores.—
Marisa Suzanne Martin,
The Spruce,
16 Feb. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Monstrosity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monstrosity. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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