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Webster 1913 Edition


Monstrously

Mon′strous-ly

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adv.
In a monstrous manner; unnaturally; extraordinarily;
as,
monstrously
wicked
.
“Who with his wife is monstrously in love.”
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Monstrously

MON'STROUSLY

,
adv.
In a manner out of the common order of nature; hence, shockingly; terribly; hideously; horribly; as a man monstrously wicked.
1.
To a great degree; enormously; extravagantly.
Who with his wife is monstrously in love.

Definition 2024


monstrously

monstrously

English

Adverb

monstrously (comparative more monstrously, superlative most monstrously)

  1. In a monstrous manner.
    • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
      She went about the house in a state of real terror, and yet lied monstrously and wilfully, and invented many of the alarms she spread, and made many of the sounds we heard.

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