(a.) Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth.
(a.) Extraordinary in a way to excite wonder, dislike, apprehension, etc.; -- said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.; as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a monstrous story.
(a.) Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful.
(a.) Abounding in monsters.
(adv.) Exceedingly; very; very much.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: “Al-Jazeera as an editorial product and an employer is by no means above criticism, but that does not make the call for its closure any less monstrous.
(2) as though his head had been halved like an apple, then put together a fraction off center'" – but if they were monstrous they were also, necessarily, human.
(3) Some singers and writers are understood to write “in character” – Elvis Costello, for instance, or Randy Newman – because the characters they create are so obviously not themselves, and are either highly exaggerated or satirical creations or, in the case of Randy Newman, a monstrous opposite.
(4) Which is a monstrous statistic, especially when you start thinking about it as a statistic that measures not just literacy but also as a measure of imagination and empathy, because a book is a little empathy machine.
(5) Despite a cramping, high-concept production set in a psychiatric ward, Richardson gave us a Richard resembling a monstrous child whose ravening will had yet to be curbed by social custom.
(6) I have seen generations of children with their familiar, monstrous deformities .
(7) Ultrasonic treatment results in the appearance of monstrous embryos that die at the latest stages of their development.
(8) Jamie Vardy started to score the goals that his lightning speed of foot and monstrous effort promised he might.
(9) His monstrous wardrobe, his entourages of 300 or 400 ferried in four aeroplanes, his huge bedouin tent, complete with accompanying camel, pitched in public parks or in the grounds of five-star hotels – and his bodyguards of gun-toting young women, who, though by no means hiding their charms beneath demure Islamic veils, were all supposedly virgins, and sworn to give their lives for their leader.
(10) Prosecutors called Gibbs "monstrous" and "savage" and told the military jury he should never be released from prison.
(11) Both cell types fuse again to form the monstrous MGC (more than 1 mm in diameter) widely extended on the implant surface.
(12) The Celtics took a 2-1 series lead and made a monstrous statement against their younger opponents.
(13) Not only the monstrous anger of the guns nor the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle, but now an epic four-minute, eye-wateringly expensive commercial for a supermarket chain.
(14) Yet it is monstrously premature to think the threat has passed.
(15) As always, the solutions are out there to eliminate this monstrous pile of pointless and avoidable waste.
(16) So Standard Chartered is either guilty of monstrous deception or is virtually squeaky clean.
(17) With permissions already granted for many more towers, from the Scalpel to the Can of Ham and a monstrous “Gotham City” mega-block by Make, we can say goodbye to a skyline of individual spires, between which you might occasionally glimpse the sky.
(18) Concerned citizens must join together with the medical profession and leaders of the legal profession to halt this monstrous injustice.
(19) All three of these deaths were monstrous, but two were barely news: business as usual like many thousands of other violent crimes against women.
(20) Alexander Walker, film critic at the Evening Standard, damned the movie as "monstrously indecent", prompting Russell to attack him with a rolled-up copy of his own newspaper.
Teratoid
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a monster; abnormal; of a pathological growth, exceedingly complex or highly organized.
Example Sentences:
(1) No mesenchymal elements other than muscle, and no indication of possible teratoid origin of this tumor were observed.
(2) When thyroid tissue of teratoid origin is found, surgical removal is advised on account of the malignant potentialities of these tumors.
(3) In a retrospective analysis, we evaluated the occurrence of toxic side effects and the frequency of intra- and postoperative complications in 128 patients with retroperitoneal teratoid bulky tumor.
(4) Mya collected at Dennysville had pericardial mesotheliomas and teratoid siphon anomalies in addition to gonadal neoplasms.
(5) In addition, teratoid medulloepithelioma, a tumor arising from the ciliary epithelium, can contain a rhabdomyoblastic component, often in combination with other heteroplastic elements.
(6) Teratoids developed at the place of implantation are represented by the derivatives of all germ layers, as well as by some organic structures.
(7) A case of teratoid tumor of the oral cavity in the newborn is presented.
(8) Because of its unique morphological appearance, which has never been reported, and its relatively indolent behavior after chemotherapy and radiotherapy, we believe that this is a distinctive primitive teratoid tumor which may be classified as nasal blastoma.
(9) The various histopathological classifications of teratoid lesions have not been discussed in detail either, because for the most part they have been evolved to serve a specific prognostic purpose on either an empirical basis or on certain histogenetic assumptions.
(10) However, some cases may be teratoid in origin, as has been suggested for the analogous lesion in the testis.
(11) An unique case is presented, never mentioned before the world specialized literature, concerning an intraarticular teratoid formation in the knee.
(12) We present a case of a very rare naso-sinusal malignant, teratoid neoplasia, recently called "terato-carcinosarcoma".
(13) The susceptibility of the opossum eye to an ENU-induced intraocular teratoid medulloepithelioma extended over the period from 1 to between 3 and 4 weeks of age and was correlated with the differentiation of the apparent target cell, the nonpigmented ciliary epithelium of the pars ciliaris retinae.
(14) A unilateral teratoid Wilms' tumor was removed 2.5 weeks after the institution of chemotherapy.
(15) The World Health Organisation histological classification of medulloepithelioma was applied, but some problems were encountered, particularly where the presence of heteroplastic brain tissue was used as a criterion for teratoid tumour and where rosettes were used as a criterion for malignancy.
(16) We report a rare tumor of the nasopharynx in the neonate: the teratoid or hairy polyp.
(17) In 33 patients with malignant teratoid testicular tumours, the retro-peritoneal lymph nodes were surgically removed after lymphograms had been carried out.
(18) Dysgenesis of the ovaries and the testes of testicular feminization syndrome should be regarded as likely soil for the development of teratoid tumors.
(19) Since 1955 to 1975 the authors observed one hundred sixty patients with teratoid formations of the pararectal cellular tissue.
(20) In a four-year-old boy a malignant teratoid medulloepithelioma of the ciliary body was removed by means of an 11.0 X 11.0 mm "block excision".