Revolting vs Monstrous - What's the difference?
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The action of the verb to revolt .
* 1837 , The American Biblical Repository (volume 9, page 316)
Which revolts or is repelling.
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
Revolting is a related term of monstrous.
As adjectives the difference between revolting and monstrous
is that revolting is which revolts or is repelling while monstrous is hideous or frightful.As a verb revolting
is .As a noun revolting
is the action of the verb to revolt .revolting
English
Verb
(head)- The peasants are revolting !
Noun
- Yet revoltings of the soul would attend this violence to nature, this abuse of physical and intellectual energy, while the beauty of social order would be defaced, and the fountains of earth's felicity broken up.
Adjective
(head)- The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.
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.