monstrous

Hideous or frightful.

So bad a death argues a monstrous life.

Enormously large.

a monstrous height

The chiding billovv ſeemes to pelt the cloudes, / The vvinde ſhak'd ſurge, vvith high and monſtrous mayne, / Seemes to caſt vvater, on the burning Beare, […]

Freakish or grotesque.

The irregular and monstrous births

He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love […] is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.

Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.

Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.

Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical.

The whole story was monstrous, and only worthy of the superstitious days in which it was written.