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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Perhaps the most monstrous attack of this campaign was the strike on a school in Minab, which killed around 175 people, mostly schoolgirls.
Dawn Editorials —
War reparations
— 2026-04-19
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Perhaps the most monstrous attack of this conflict occurred when a suspected American strike killed nearly 170 people, mostly schoolgirls, in the Iranian town of Minab.Furthermore, around 3m people have been internally displaced in Iran.
Dawn Editorials —
Trump`s hot air
— 2026-04-03
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The first thing these and other countries ought to have done after the attack on Tehran is to have pulled out of Trump`s monstrous Board of Peace (BoP).
Dawn Editorials —
Silence of the lambs
— 2026-03-11
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As Mary Shelley`s Victor Frankenstein overreached his genius and produced a monstrous antidote to his own quest, the bourgeoisie would throw up a Narendra Modi here or a Donald Trump there to their own chagrin.
Dawn Editorials —
Fearing the spectre of Godot
— 2025-11-11
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It is for us to decide, whether we opt to identify and rein in these monstrous criminal syndicates, or allow ourselves to turn into a criminotocracy.
Dawn Editorials —
Diagnosing organised crime
— 2025-10-30
Synonyms
grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible,
Antonyms
lovely, beautiful, normal
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