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Monstrous vs Terrifying - What's the difference?

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Monstrous is a related term of terrifying.


As adjectives the difference between monstrous and terrifying

is that monstrous is hideous or frightful while terrifying is frightening or intimidating.

As a verb terrifying is

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monstrous

English

Adjective

(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
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    terrifying

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Frightening or intimidating.
  • Of a formidable nature; terrific
  • Derived terms

    * terrifyingly

    Verb

    (head)