monstrosity
pronunciation
How to pronounce monstrosity in British English:
UK [mɒnˈstrɒsəti]
How to pronounce monstrosity in American English:
US [mɑnˈstrɑsəti]
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- Noun:
- a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
- something hideous or frightful
Word Origin
- monstrosity (n.)
- 1550s, "abnormality of growth," from Late Latin monstrositas "strangeness," from Latin monstrosus, a collateral form of monstruosus (source of French monstruosité); see monster. Earlier form was monstruosity (c. 1400). Sense of "quality of being monstrous" is first recorded 1650s. Meaning "a monster" is attested from 1640s.
Example
- 1. You 'll have me in some hootchie-mama monstrosity .
- 2. If people will pay extra for meat from a monstrosity like the belgian blue , anything is possible .
- 3. Into a pathetic monstrosity of alienated western sexuality .
- 4. The new office building is a real monstrosity .
- 5. They regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity .