Monstrous vs Towering - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between monstrous and towering

is that monstrous is hideous or frightful while towering is very tall or high, particularly used to denote something that is taller than anything around it.

As a verb towering is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun towering is

the act or condition of being high above others.

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

towering

English

Verb

(head)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Very tall or high, particularly used to denote something that is taller than anything around it.

*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

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Noun

(en noun)

The act or condition of being high above others.

* 1829 , John Timbs, Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors

Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; the hearers either strain their faculties to accompany its towerings , or are left behind in envy or despair.

* (Robert Burns)

But I am an old hawk at the sport; and wrote her such a cool, deliberate, prudent reply, as brought my bird from the aerial towerings pop down at my foot like Corporal Trim's hat.