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monstrously

monstrously adverb: in a monstrous manner.

Adverb

monstrously (comparative more monstrously, superlative most monstrously)

  1. In a monstrous manner.
    • 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.1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
    • 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...2007 June 4, Alastair Macaulay, “Wake Up, Princess, the Movies Are Calling”, in The New York Times

Forms of monstrously

comparativemore monstrously
superlativemost monstrously

Origin of monstrously

From monstrous + -ly.

Words formed from monstrously

Questions about monstrously

What does monstrously mean?
Monstrously means in a monstrous manner.
What part of speech is monstrously?
Monstrously is an adverb.

Words near monstrously in the dictionary

  1. monstrous
  2. monstrous agreement
  3. monstrous moonshine
  4. monstrous regiment
  5. monstrousest
  6. monstrously
  7. monstrousness
  8. monstrousnesses
  9. monstruosities
  10. monstruosity
  11. monstruous

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