monsterful

English

Etymology

From Middle English monstreful, equivalent to monster +‎ -ful.

Adjective

monsterful (comparative more monsterful, superlative most monsterful)

1. (archaic) Rare; extraordinary; marvelous
   • 2009, New Left Review, page 89:

     Topics discussed include truth, subjectivity, transcendence, and the future of religion, secularity and political hope in the light of a monsterful event — God becoming human.

   • 2014, Jonas Dahl, The problem-solving citizen:

     First of all I would like to thank my head supervisor Tamsin Meaney for all the time and effort. You are absolutely monsterful.

   • 2015, MD Foster, The book of yokai: Mysterious creatures of Japanese folklore:

     In memory of three masterful, monsterful, inspirational teachers: Geraldine Murphy (1920–1990) Alan Dundes (1934–2005) Miyata Noboru (1936–2000)

2. (informal) Characterised by or similar to monsters.
   • 1878, Sydney Dobell, Emily Jolly, The Life and Letters of Sydney Dobell, page 413:

     Like the flights and flights of the foam Thro' wild nights of the monsterful main Thundering nights of the monsterful main, The mad white flights thro' the mad black nights Before the hurricane;

   • 1890, Whitley Stokes, Lives of Saints, from the Book of Lismore, page 255:

     ... glens hard, full of reptiles; bogs rough, thorny ; woods dark, fiery; roads foul, monsterful; seas thickened surface-stinking; nails huge, iron; waters dark, unsweet; places (i) abundant, various; an assembly foul, ever-gloomy; winds bitter, wintry; snow frozen, ever-dropping;

   • 1915 -, Kuno Meyer, Miscellanea Hibernica - Volumes 1-2, page 592:

     Behold ye to the northeast the glorious monsterful sea!

   • 1996, Jacqueline Borsje, From Chaos to Enemy: Encounters with Monsters in Early Irish Texts:

     They are called ruiseda and destroy trees. This is why the mountain is called Sliab bledach Bledma, 'monsterful Sliab Bledma' (Stokes, 1894, p. 301).

   • 2010, Ralph O'Connor, “From the epic of Earth history to the evolutionary epic in nineteenth-century Britain”, in Journal of Victorian Culture, volume 14, number 2:

     Epic was invoked in this connection less frequently than the more monsterful genres of fairytale, romance, legend and myth.

   • 2011, Red Jordan Arobateau, Days Before The Yoke, →ISBN, page 110:

     This is a monsterful world. Monsterful.

Translations

characterised by or similar to monsters — see monstrous