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Monstrous vs Bemonster - What's the difference?

monstrous | bemonster |

As an adjective monstrous

is hideous or frightful.

As a verb bemonster is

to make monstrous or like a monster; make hideous; deform.

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

    bemonster

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make monstrous or like a monster; make hideous; deform.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • To regard, treat as, or bename one as 'monster'.
    • (Webster 1913)