monstrous, adj. 1. frightful, terrifying, horrific, harrowing, hellish, awful, dreadful, Inf. scary; hideous, horrible, grotesque, horrendous, extremely ugly, repugnant, repellent, repulsive, disgusting, beastly; grisly, gruesome, ghastly, sickening, bloodcurdling, spinechilling,*lurid; cadaverous, macabre, creepy.
2. shocking, scandalous, notorious, flagrant, shameless, outrageous; loathsome, revolting, gross, foul, base, debased, vile, evil, nefarious, Obs. scelerous; horrid, terrible, nasty; infamous, ignominious, odious, contemptible, despicable, opprobrious, detestable, sordid, degenerate, depraved, heinous, vicious, atrocious, flagitious, corrupt, reprehensible, unprincipled.
3. huge, enormous, titanic, gigantic, immense, prodigious, colossal, vast, stupendous, mammoth, tremendous, gargantuan, behemothian, elephantine, Sl. humongous, giant, towering, mighty, strapping, hulking.
4. deviate, deviant, deviating, aberrant, irregular; abnormal, anomalous, anomalistic; unnatural, freakish, weird, strange, bizarre, Inf. freaky; miscreated, malformed, deformed, misshaped, misshapen, hetero-clite, heteroclitical, heteromorphic, heteromorphous, teratological, teratoid, teratogenetic.
month, n. four weeks, thirty days, lunation, lunar month, solar month, calendar month, synodic month, sidereal month, anomalistic month, nodical month, draconic month.
monument, n. 1. memorial, shrine, reliquary; gravestone, marker, tombstone, headstone; tomb, sepulcher, mastaba, mausoleum; vault, crypt.
2. pillar, column, obelisk, shaft, slab; All Archaeol. cromlech, dolmen, megalith.
3. relic, remains, vestige, trace, token; enduring evidence, reminder, remembrance, reminiscence, memento, commemoration, commemorative; eulogy, eulogi-um, obsequy, Obs. observation.
4. exemplar, model, paragon; pattern, standard, ideal.
monumental, adj. 1. massive, immense, prodigious, enormous, Archaic, enorm, gigantic, gargantuan; vast, large-scale, mammoth, jumbo, colossal, monstrous, gigantean; bulky, big, large, hulking, huge, hugeous; towering, staggering, mountainous, stupendous, tremendous, Sl. humongous; elephantine, hippopotamic, leviathan, dinosaurian; oversize, king-size, overlarge; All Inf. whopping, roaring, spanking, walloping.
2. impressive, imposing, conspicuous, striking; majestic, grand, august, stately, dignified; grandiose, magnificent, overwhelming, awesome, awe-inspiring, lofty, wondrous, marvelous, prodigious; distinguished, eminent, illustrious, glorious, brilliant, radiant, lustrous.
mood, n. 1. temper, humor, spirit, vein, vibrations, Inf. vibes; temperament, disposition, nature, attitude; tendency, bent, inclination, leaning, propensity; stripe, cast, mould, set of one's jib; prejudice, tendentiousness, bias, preference; desire, longing, wishing, hankering, craving; appetite, taste.
2. feeling, consciousness, awareness, sentience, sensibility, perception, sensitivity; opinion, outlook, mind, frame of mind, mind-set, viewpoint, point of view; attitude, stance, position, posture, way of thinking.
3. moods depression, dejection, despondency, funk, mopes; pessimism, fits of uncertainty, heaviness, sadness; doldrums, blues, mopes, low spirits.