monstrously

Questions about monstrously

What does monstrously mean?

monstrously means "in a hideous manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in monstrously?

monstrously has 3 syllables: mon-strou-sly. The stress falls on "mon".

What is another word for monstrously?

Close synonyms include hideously, horridly, heinously, grotesquely. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is monstrously a common word?

monstrously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.