Monstrous vs Prodigious - What's the difference?
monstrous | prodigious | 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
Very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.
{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3
, Its prodigious size made me shrink again; yet I could not, without pleasure, behold, and even ventur'd to feel, such a length, such a breadth of animated ivory!}}
extraordinarily exciting or amazing
(obsolete) ominous, portentous
Monstrous is a related term of prodigious.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between monstrous and prodigious
is that monstrous is (obsolete) marvellous; strange while prodigious is (obsolete) ominous, portentous.As adjectives the difference between monstrous and prodigious
is that monstrous is hideous or frightful while prodigious is very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.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.
