Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

monstrously

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.25 in modern English

Syllables: mon-strous-ly
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a monstrous manner.

Example Sentences

"She went about the house in a state of real terror, and yet lied monstrously and wilfully, and invented many of the alarms she spread, and made many of the sounds we heard."
"This does become monstrously antimusical in one scene: when Tchaikovsky’s music, softly depicting the sleeping palace (my favorite passage of this composer’s entire oeuvre, with its beautifully muffled oboe melody suggesting how beauty ripens in sleep like a chrysalis), is turned into an epic battle for the poor passive Prince, conducted between the wicked Carabosse, with her ghoulish minions, and the Lilac Fairy, with her elves."

Etymology

Etymology tree English monstrous Middle English -ly English -ly English monstrously From monstrous + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more monstrously (comparative) most monstrously (superlative)

Derived Forms

supermonstrously

Synonyms

grotesquely heinously hideously horridly

Questions

What does monstrously mean?: In a monstrous manner.
Where does monstrously come from?: Etymology tree English monstrous Middle English -ly English -ly English monstrously From monstrous + -ly.

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