Definition of "monstruous"

monstruous

/ˈmɒnstɹʊəs/

adjective
comparative more monstruous, superlative most monstruous
1. (now rare) Monstrous.
  Quotations
  For he was sterne and terrible by nature, […] And rather like a Gyant monstruous […].
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie