Perverted vs Monstrous - What's the difference?
perverted | monstrous | Related terms |
deviating from what is normally considered right, normal or correct
(pejorative, offensive) of, relating to, or practicing unusual or "kinky" sex
misrepresented, altered or distorted
(pervert)
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
Perverted is a related term of monstrous.
As adjectives the difference between perverted and monstrous
is that perverted is deviating from what is normally considered right, normal or correct while monstrous is hideous or frightful.As a verb perverted
is (pervert).perverted
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* pervy (less formal)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(head)monstrous
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(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.