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MONSTROUS
Definition of MONSTROUS
adjective
Hideous or frightful.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English monstrous, from Old French monstrueuse, monstrüos, from Latin mōnstrōsus. Compare monstruous. By surface analysis, monster + -ous.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,664)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MONSTROUS · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MONSTROUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MONSTROUS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read MNOORSSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and S appear more than once.
Words that start MONSTR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MONSTROUS?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 162 - and most players walked straight past it.
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