Difference between Monstrous and Grievous

What is the difference between Monstrous and Grievous?

Monstrous as an adjective is hideous or frightful while Grievous as an adjective is causing grief, pain or sorrow

Monstrous

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: hideous or frightful enormously large freakish or grotesque of, or relating to a mythical monster

Example sentence: The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Grievous

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Causing grief, pain or sorrowserious, grave, dire or dangerous

We hope you now know whether to use Monstrous or Grievous in your sentence.

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