Monstrous vs Brobdingnagian - What's the difference?
monstrous | brobdingnagian | 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
Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag.
(figuratively) Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.
* 1899 , Israel Zangwill, "They that Walk in Darkness": Ghetto Tragedies (page 289)
* 1907 , , "Glamour" in His Own People ,
* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 52:
Monstrous is a related term of brobdingnagian.
As adjectives the difference between monstrous and brobdingnagian
is that monstrous is hideous or frightful while brobdingnagian is of or pertaining to brobdingnag.As a noun brobdingnagian is
a creature from brobdingnag.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.
Synonyms
* See alsobrobdingnagian
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough.
- The two men followed Madame de Vaurigard into a square hall, hung with tapestries and lit by two candles of a Brobdingnagian species Mellin had heretofore seen only in cathedrals.
- Again I stress the matter of sheer scale: the teachers were enormous compared to us and this lent a Brobdingnagian aspect to the scene.