Monstrously

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Monstrously \Mon"strous*ly\, adv.
     In a monstrous manner; unnaturally; extraordinarily; as,
     monstrously wicked. "Who with his wife is monstrously in
     love." --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  monstrously
       adv 1: in a hideous manner; "her face was hideously disfigured
              after the accident" [syn: {hideously}, {horridly}]
       2: in a terribly evil manner; "the child was heinously
          murdered" [syn: {heinously}]
       3: in a grotesque manner; "behind the house lay two nude
          figures grotesquely bald, with deliberate knife-slashes
          marking their bodies" [syn: {grotesquely}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "monstrously":
     abjectly, abominably, arrantly, atrociously, basely, contemptibly,
     despicably, eerily, execrably, fancifully, fantastically,
     flagrantly, foully, grossly, grotesquely, heinously, meanly,
     miserably, mysteriously, nefariously, obnoxiously, odiously,
     outlandishly, peculiarly, pettily, poorly, quaintly, queerly,
     scurvily, shabbily, shoddily, singularly, strangely,
     supernaturally, vilely, wretchedly