Qualities
Synonyms for monstrous
Synonyms for monstrous: grievous and grotesque. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for monstrous
- grievousadjective, in the sense "shockingly brutal or cruel"
- grotesqueadjective, in the sense "distorted and unnatural in shape or size"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of monstrous, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
shockingly brutal or cruel
No excess was too monstrous for them to commit.
The true synonym
grievous
Same sentence, swapped: No excess was too grievous for them to commit.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- grotesque
- mighty
- miserable
distorted and unnatural in shape or size
Twisted into monstrous shapes.
The true synonym
grotesque
Same sentence, swapped: Twisted into grotesque shapes.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for monstrous in the sentence quoted.
- grievous
- mighty
- miserable
Where monstrous turns up in the game
monstrous is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where monstrous is the trap
- exaggeratedadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is enlarged, in the sense "enlarged to an abnormal degree", with monstrous sitting one tile away.
- exaggeratedadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is overdone, in the sense "represented as greater than is true or reasonable", with monstrous sitting one tile away.
Play monstrous
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so monstrous reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company monstrous keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. monstrous carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.