Monstrous vs Intemperate - What's the difference?
monstrous | intemperate | 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
Lacking moderation, temper or control.
Indulging any appetite or passion to excess, especially the drinking of alcohol.
Monstrous is a related term of intemperate.
As adjectives the difference between monstrous and intemperate
is that monstrous is hideous or frightful while intemperate is lacking moderation, temper or control.As a verb intemperate is
(obsolete|transitive) to disorder.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 alsointemperate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- intemperate''' language; '''intemperate zeal
- Bad week for: Jeremy Clarkson, who has become a hate figure in Malaysia after launching an intemperate attack on a Malaysian built car'' - ''The Week , 14 April 2007, 609 , 4.
