Gigantic vs Monstrous - What's the difference?
gigantic | monstrous | Related terms |
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
Gigantic is a related term of monstrous.
As adjectives the difference between gigantic and monstrous
is that gigantic is very large while monstrous is hideous or frightful.gigantic
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Alternative forms
* gigantick (obsolete)Synonyms
* gigantesque * See alsoDerived terms
* gigantismmonstrous
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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.