Monstrous may refer to:
- Monstrous carbuncle, modernist architecture that is unsympathetic to its surroundings
- Monstrous humanoid, a creature type in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game
- Monstrous moonshine, a mathematical term describing connection between the monster group M and modular functions
- Monstrous cultivar, a cultivated mutated plant (either discovered or induced through chemical or genetic manipulation), usually strikingly different (and therefore more interesting to plant enthusiasts) from the type species (typical varieties)
Famous quotes containing the word monstrous:
“It is not merely the likeness which is precious ... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing ... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think—and it is not at all monstrous in me to say ... that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist’s work ever produced.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“It is not at all monstrous in me to say ... that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest artist’s work ever produced.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)