Repellent vs Monstrous - What's the difference?
repellent | monstrous | Related terms |
tending or able to repel; driving back
repulsive, inspiring aversion
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resistant or impervious to something
someone who repels
a substance used to repel insects
a substance or treatment for a fabric etc to make it impervious to something
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
As adjectives the difference between repellent and monstrous
is that repellent is tending or able to repel; driving back while monstrous is hideous or frightful.As a noun repellent
is someone who repels.repellent
English
(wikipedia repellent)Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)monstrous
English
Adjective
(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.