Monstrous vs Inhuman - What's the difference?
monstrous | inhuman | 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 inhumanity and the indifferently cruel, sadistic or barbaric behavior it brings.
Monstrous is a related term of inhuman.
As adjectives the difference between monstrous and inhuman
is that monstrous is hideous or frightful while inhuman is of or pertaining to inhumanity and the indifferently cruel, sadistic or barbaric behavior it brings.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.