Monstrous vs Grisly - What's the difference?
monstrous | grisly | Synonyms |
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
horrifyingly repellent; terrifying, gruesome
Monstrous is a synonym of grisly.
As adjectives the difference between monstrous and grisly
is that monstrous is hideous or frightful while grisly is horrifyingly repellent; terrifying, gruesome.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 alsogrisly
English
Adjective
(er)- The photos of the killings depict a grisly scene.
