Frightening vs Monstrous - What's the difference?
frightening | monstrous | Related terms |
Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.
(figuratively) Awful, terrible, very bad.
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
Frightening is a related term of monstrous.
As adjectives the difference between frightening and monstrous
is that frightening is causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary while monstrous is hideous or frightful.As a verb frightening
is .frightening
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The frightening scientist lived in an old shack.
Synonyms
*Verb
(head)- The scientist was frightening the timid children.
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.