Modifies a noun

• carbuncle: He added: " Anyone of taste will know that the Harley is a monstrous carbuncle to the Triumph's beauty spot, " .

• regiment: A trumpet blast against the monstrous regiment of fathers!

• tyranny: To deny assisted suicide to a competent adult with no depressive illness is a monstrous tyranny and denies their autonomy.

• ego: Dali & Crowley were two of a kind, monstrous egos, they have been called.

• beast: Like Mars, giant robots were left to wander the planet, along with huge monstrous beasts, native to the planet.

Modifying Another Word

• truly: Lurid accounts of encounters between humans and crocodiles have fascinated and horrified people over the centuries, and some truly monstrous creatures exist today.

• quite: The internal family strife in this book is quite monstrous, with brother against brother in a kind of personal one-on-one warfare.

• so: Whether such good can come out of so monstrous an evil remains to be seen.

• too: This was a vision too monstrous to contemplate, even when alive.

• simply: I can't quite decide if it is a beauty or simply monstrous.

• even: They are inhabited by every conceiveable species of fish from the World and also by fantastic and even monstrous creatures of it's own.

Used with adjective complement

• become: The demands of the state budget have become so monstrous that they threaten to devour the peasant with all his land and products.

• look: She was very beautiful, a fine thick-lipped specimen while clearly looked monstrous.

• seem: To many it seemed monstrous that his wife should be arraigned for lapses which appeared less grave than his own.

• appear: In Sargent's 1889 portrait of Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, the new queen of Scotland appears physically monstrous.

• undertake: What is at issue is to explain how and why the Kremlin clique could have risked undertaking so monstrous a frame-up.