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Reprehensible vs Monstrous - What's the difference?

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Reprehensible is a related term of monstrous.


As adjectives the difference between reprehensible and monstrous

is that reprehensible is reprehensible while monstrous is hideous or frightful.

reprehensible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
  • Deserving of reprehension.
  • * 1998 , Greg Morrow and Dylan Verheul, '' The Sandman Annotations, Sandman 14
  • Scarlett O’Hara was the heroine of the novel/movie Gone with the Wind'' and the reprehensible sequel ''Scarlett .

    Synonyms

    * at fault, deplorable, remiss

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A reprehensible person; a villain.
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    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