Adjective: monstrocious
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more monstrocious |
| Superlative | most monstrocious |
Sample Sentences
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signs, which from their very huge monstrosity and wickedness, cannot be hid [...] Piety of ordinary and applied discernment, cannot mistake the marks monstrocious. [1853, William E. Flashman, Plain thoughts and rules for the interpretation of prophecy, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., page 26:]
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Fishermen "are not the monstrocious killers everyone's portraying," Guptill says. "They're not in the business to annihilate species; we want [a future fishery] for our children." [2013, August 9, Arlene Benham The Quoddy Tides Vol.45 No.16 "Photos spark shark-killing investigation"]
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"Ef he ain't de beatenest chil' !" she wheezed; "namin' dat monstrocious dawg after de Jedge !" [1938, Chambers's Journal, volume 7, page 271:]
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MLB’s opening day is officially here, and we’re celebrating here at Foodbeast by highlighting some of the most monstrocious food that is being introduced around Major League ball parks. [2012 April 4, Isai Rocha, “MLB Opening Day: Craziest Eats From Ballparks Across the Nation”, in Foodbeast:]
Adjectives inflected like monstrocious
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Blend of monstrous + ferocious, or blend of monstrous + atrocious; or back-formation from monstrosity after ferocity, atrocity.