Monstrous vs Colossal - What's the difference?

Monstrous is a related term of colossal.

is that monstrous is hideous or frightful while colossal is extremely large or on a great scale.

(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

* See also

(en adjective)

Extremely large or on a great scale.

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* (extremely large) enormous, giant, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast * See also