What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Monstrous vs Barghest - What's the difference?

monstrous | barghest |

As an adjective monstrous

is hideous or frightful.

As a noun barghest is

(uk) a legendary monstrous black dog, said to possess large teeth and claws and (sometimes) to be capable of changing form.

monstrous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • hideous or frightful
  • * Shakespeare
    • So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
  • enormously large
    • a monstrous height
    a monstrous ox
  • freakish or grotesque
  • * John Locke
    • a monstrous birth
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.
  • of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters
  • * Milton
    • Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.
  • (obsolete) marvellous; strange

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    barghest

    English

    (wikipedia barghest)

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK) A legendary monstrous black dog, said to possess large teeth and claws and (sometimes) to be capable of changing form.
  • (UK) Any ghost, wraith, hobgoblin, elf, or spirit.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Usage notes

    This word is best known in northern England, especially Yorkshire.