Difference between Monstrous and Grotesque

MONSTROUS vs GROTESQUE: NOUN

Specifically In art, a capricious figure, work, or ornament; especially, a variety of arabesque which as a whole has no type in nature, being a combination of the parts of animals and plants, and of other incongruous elements.
In printing, any uncouth form of type; specifically, in Great Britain, the black square-cut display-type called gothic in the United States.
A work of art executed in this style.
A style of painting, sculpture, and ornamentation in which natural forms and monstrous figures are intertwined in bizarre or fanciful combinations.
One that is grotesque.
A sans serif typeface.
Anything grotesque.
A style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms.
Artificial grotto-work.
A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes.
Art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants
That which is grotesque, as an uncouth or ill-proportioned figure, rude and savage scenery, an inartistic, clownish, or absurd fancy, a clumsy satire, or the like.

Hideous or frightful
Abounding in monsters.
Extraordinary in a way to excite wonder, dislike, apprehension, etc.; -- said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.
Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal.
Marvelous; strange.
Enormously large
Abnormally large
Deviating greatly from the norm in appearance or structure; abnormal.
Extremely immoral or cruel.
Exceptionally large; enormous.
Of or resembling a fabulous monster.
Shockingly hideous or frightful in appearance.
Shockingly brutal or cruel
Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
Freakish or grotesque
Of, or relating to a mythical monster
Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful.

Disgusting or otherwise viscerally reviling.
Sans serif.
Wildly or strangely formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular forms and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous; antic.
Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
Ludicrously odd
Characterized by ludicrous, repulsive, or incongruous distortion, as of appearance or manner. : ugly.
Outlandish or bizarre, as in character or appearance. : fantastic.
Like the figures found in ancient grottoes; grottolike.
Of, relating to, or being the grotesque style in art or a work executed in this style.

Exceedingly; extremely; wonderfully: as, monstrous difficult.
Of unnatural formation; deviating greatly from the natural form or structure; out of the common course of nature: as, a monstrous birth or production.
Enormous; huge; prodigious; unparalleled.
Shocking; hateful; horrible: as, a monstrous delusion.
Full of monsters or strange creatures.
Synonyms Abnormal.
Prodigious, vast, colossal, stupendous.
Wicked, Atrocious, etc. (see atrocious).
Abnormal and hideous

Consisting of or resembling artificial grotto-work.
Hence Of the fantastic character of such grotto-work and of its decoration; wildly formed; of irregular forms and proportions; ludicrous; antic (which see), as the arabesques of the Renaissance, in which figures human to the waist terminate in scrolls, leafage, and the like, and are associated with animal forms and impossible flowers; hence, in general, whimsical, extravagant, or odd; absurdly bold: often, or more commonly, used in a sense of condemnation or depreciation.
Synonyms Fantastic, etc. (see fanciful); whimsical, wild, strange.
Abnormal and hideous

Horrendous, Beastly, Hideous, Gigantic, Flagitious, Grievous, Large, Unnatural, Ugly, Big, Evil, Atrocious, Heinous, Wicked, Grotesque

Preposterous, Ludicrous, Farcical, Appalling, Absurd, Bizarre, Outrageous, Fantastic, Unusual, Antic, Strange, Ugly, Fantastical, Unnatural, Monstrous

Horrendous, Beastly, Hideous, Gigantic, Flagitious, Grievous, Large, Unnatural, Ugly, Big, Evil, Atrocious, Heinous, Wicked, Grotesque

Preposterous, Ludicrous, Farcical, Appalling, Absurd, Bizarre, Outrageous, Fantastic, Unusual, Antic, Strange, Ugly, Fantastical, Unnatural, Monstrous

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Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.
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Who but Satan could inspire such monstrous actions?
Natural fools belonged, according to Konrad von Megenberg, to the class of the monstrous individuals, as did monstrous births.
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