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Monstrous vs Unconscionable - What's the difference?

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Monstrous is a related term of unconscionable.


As adjectives the difference between monstrous and unconscionable

is that monstrous is hideous or frightful while unconscionable is not conscionable; unscrupulous and lacking principles or conscience.

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

    unconscionable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not conscionable; unscrupulous and lacking principles or conscience.
  • * 2001 , , Middle Age: A Romance (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, p364)
    • When Roger assured him that prospects "looked very good" for a retrial, even a reversal of the verdict, since Roger had discovered "unconscionable errors" in the trial, Jackson grunted in bemusement and smiled with half his mouth.
  • Excessive, imprudent or unreasonable.
    • The effective rate of interest was unconscionable , but not legally usurious.