Monstrous

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 seemed monstrous to our intolerant youth that “poor white folksy” men should have an equal right with gentlemen, born and bred, in deciding who should represent the county in the Legislature and the district in Congress.”
    —Marion Harland (1830–1922)

    “The retaliation is apt to be in monstrous disproportion to the supposed offense; for when in anybody was revenge in its exactions aught else but an inordinate usurer?”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “She imagines herself clean as a fish,
    evasive, solitary, dumb. Her prayer:
    to make peace with her own monstrous nature.”
    —Elaine Feinstein (b. 1930)