Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

monstrosify

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mon-strosi-fy
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make into a monstrosity.

Example Sentences

"XXXII. Honour and right principle. [Lord Byron monstrosified by Dr. Faustus, and his own vanity, (over and above the romantic defamation of extravagant admirers.)] The heart and the lips,"
"We have Corinthian columns placed beside pilasters of no order at all, surmounted by monstrosified pepper-boxes, Gothic in form and Grecian in detail, in a building nominally and peculiarly national;[…]"
"This monstrosifying of the male central character – going all the way back to Scanners – has an analogue in the ‘realist’ (i.e., non-horror-genre) outlines of the films."

Etymology

From monstrosity + -ify.

Inflected Forms

monstrosifies (present, singular) monstrosifying (participle, present) monstrosified (participle, past) monstrosified (past)

Questions

What does monstrosify mean?: To make into a monstrosity.
Where does monstrosify come from?: From monstrosity + -ify.

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