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Sickening vs Monstrous - What's the difference?

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Sickening is a related term of monstrous.


As adjectives the difference between sickening and monstrous

is that sickening is causing sickness or disgust while monstrous is hideous or frightful.

As a verb sickening

is .

As a noun sickening

is the act of making somebody sick.

sickening

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing sickness or disgust.
  • Amazing, fantastic.

    • See also

    * loathsome * disgusting * abominable * detestable * hateful

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making somebody sick.
  • * 2010 , Greg A. Marley, Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares
    • In the Northeast, one porcini look-alike has been implicated in several sickenings . It is Boletus huronensis , and though some guides call it edible, there have been a few cases of people becoming sickened following a meal of this mushroom.

    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