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colourless, unexciting, run-of-the-mill, ordinary, commonplace,
routine, uneventful, everyday, mechanical, banausic, Colloq
ho-hum: Working in an assembly line became monotonous, so I
took a job in advertising.
monster n. 1 beast, fiend, ogre, giant, dragon, brute, demon, troll,
bogeyman: Why are so many children's fairy tales populated by
monsters? 2 monstrosity, (living) abortion, mutant, mutation,
freak, deformity, lusus naturae, eyesore, horror, miscreation,
missing link: Monsters of every description were the main
features of circus sideshows for centuries.
--adj. 3 See monstrous, 3, below.
monstrosity
n. 1 See monster, 2, above. 2 monstrousness, heinousness,
horribleness, horridness, hideousness, awfulness,
nightmarishness, dreadfulness, frightfulness, horror,
hellishness, ghoulishness, fiendishness, barbarity: The
monstrosity of the concentration camps was not widely known till
after the war.
monstrous adj. 1 awful, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrendous,
horrifying, hideous, ugly, nightmarish, dreadful, heinous,
grisly, gruesome, disgusting, nauseous, nauseating, repulsive,
repellent, revolting, frightful, grotesque, hellish, ghoulish,
freakish, fiendish, barbaric, barbarous, savage, inhuman,
merciless, ruthless, brutal, brutish, beastly: How could anyone
treat another human being with such monstrous cruelty! 2
outrageous, shocking, scandalous, atrocious, appalling, wicked,
villainous, evil, vile, insensitive, cruel, base, debased,
shameful, shameless, infamous, disgraceful, nefarious,
egregious, foul, vicious, flagitious, loathsome, depraved: It
is monstrous to suggest that money could compensate for the loss
of a child. It was a monstrous trick to make him think he had
failed the exam when he'd got the top mark. 3 gigantic, giant,
huge, vast, enormous, colossal, monster, gargantuan, jumbo,
immense, tremendous, titanic, prodigious, massive, towering,
elephantine, mammoth: They are planning to build a monstrous
shopping mall in the town centre.
monument n. 1 marker, cairn, memorial, tablet, shrine, commemoration;
sepulchre, gravestone, tombstone, headstone, tomb, mausoleum,