Meanings (ES + gloss)
monstruoso
Hideous or frightful.
So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
monstruoso
Enormously large.
Possibly monster pumpkins may become still more monstrous by the shoots being ringed, and so may other vegetables and fruits where quality is of less importance than mere size.
a monstrous height
monstruoso
Freakish or grotesque.
He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love […] is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.
The irregular and monstrous births
monstruoso
Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.
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