Vocabulary
Monstrous
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
having the ugly or frightening appearance of a monster
inhumanly or outrageously evil or wrong
Urdu meaning
بدصورت، دیوہیکل
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- But bureaucratic wrangling between the city authorities and the federal government has aggravated matters, resulting in delayed projects, dug-up roads, and monstrous traffic.
- It is a shocking irony that the children of Holocaust survivors should themselves have unleashed monstrous violence on the men, women and youngsters of occupied Palestine.
- Recognition would only `reward` Israel for the monstrous crimes it continues to commit in Palestine.
- The spirit of unity within the Islamic world demands that Israel be confronted for its monstrous behaviour.
- Unfortunately, Israel has failed to realise that despite its monstrous crimes against Gaza`s population, the Palestinian people refuse to yield.
Synonyms
grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible,
Antonyms
lovely, beautiful, normal
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