Coldhearted vs Monstrous - What's the difference?
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* {{quote-news, 2009, January 18, Charles Isherwood, Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages, New York Times, url=
, passage=Since she sprang from the imagination of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1890, this coldhearted antiheroine has maintained a tight grip on the attention of audiences across the globe, outstripping all the many other complicated women in Ibsen’s oeuvre, even the door-slamming Nora of “A Doll’s House. }}
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
Coldhearted is a related term of monstrous.
As adjectives the difference between coldhearted and monstrous
is that coldhearted is while monstrous is hideous or frightful.coldhearted
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monstrous
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(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.