grim vs monstrous

grim

adj
  • Ghastly or sinister. 

  • Rigid and unrelenting. 

  • Disgusting; gross. 

  • Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. 

verb
  • To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to. 

monstrous

adj
  • Hideous or frightful. 

  • Enormously large. 

  • Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters. 

  • Freakish or grotesque. 

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