Immeasurable vs Monstrous - What's the difference?
immeasurable | monstrous | Related terms |
impossible to measure
vast
* 2007 , Terence Hunt,
Anything that cannot be measured.
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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
Immeasurable is a related term of monstrous.
As adjectives the difference between immeasurable and monstrous
is that immeasurable is impossible to measure while monstrous is hideous or frightful.As a noun immeasurable
is anything that cannot be measured.immeasurable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Longest-serving Bush aide resigns, Associated Press
- "His contribution has been immeasurable ," Bush said in a statement. "I value his judgment, and I treasure his friendship."
Usage notes
Also used tautologically as a spin word to avoid stating explicitly whether someone or something had a positive or negative effect. It is a neutral term equivalent to neither priceless'' nor ''worthless .Synonyms
* immensurable * unmeasurableAntonyms
* measurableNoun
(en noun)citation
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.
