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Monstrous vs Unsightly - What's the difference?

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Monstrous is a related term of unsightly.


As adjectives the difference between monstrous and unsightly

is that monstrous is hideous or frightful while unsightly is displeasing to the eye.

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

    unsightly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • displeasing to the eye
  • Usage notes

    * The forms unsightlier and unsightliest are dated.

    Synonyms

    * disgusting * ugly

    Antonyms

    * beautiful * sightly