monstrous vs repulsive

monstrous

adj
  • Hideous or frightful. 

  • Enormously large. 

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

  • Freakish or grotesque. 

repulsive

adj
  • Tending to rouse aversion or to repulse; disgusting. 

  • Having the capacity to repel. 

  • Cold; reserved; forbidding. 

How often have the words monstrous and repulsive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )