Exorbitant vs Monstrous - What's the difference?
exorbitant | monstrous | Related terms |
exceeding proper limits; extravagant; excessive or unduly high.
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hideous or frightful
* Shakespeare
enormously large
freakish or grotesque
* John Locke
* Jeremy Taylor
of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters
* Milton
(obsolete) marvellous; strange
Exorbitant is a related term of monstrous.
As adjectives the difference between exorbitant and monstrous
is that exorbitant is exceeding proper limits; extravagant; excessive or unduly high while monstrous is hideous or frightful.exorbitant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It's a nice car, but they are charging an exorbitant price for it.
- You also have to pay exorbitant interest if you have credit card debt.
monstrous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
- a monstrous height
- a monstrous ox
- a monstrous birth
- He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.
- Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.