monster

mon·ster  (mnstr)

n.

1.

a. An imaginary or legendary creature, such as a centaur or Harpy, that combines parts from various animal or human forms.

b. A creature having a strange or frightening appearance.

2. An animal, a plant, or other organism having structural defects or deformities.

3. Pathology A fetus or an infant that is grotesquely abnormal and usually not viable.

4. A very large animal, plant, or object.

5. One who inspires horror or disgust: a monster of selfishness.

adj.

Informal Extremely large; monstrous: a monster hit at the box office; ate a monster steak.

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[Middle English monstre, from Old French, from Latin mnstrum, portent, monster, from monre, to warn; see men-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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monster

Noun

1. an imaginary beast, usually frightening in appearance

2. a very large person, animal, or thing

3. an exceptionally cruel or wicked person

4. a person, animal, or plant with a marked deformity [Latin monstrum portent]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	monster - an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts imaginary being, imaginary creature - a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction bogeyman, booger, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear - an imaginary monster used to frighten children mythical creature, mythical monster - a monster renowned in folklore and myth
	2.	monster - someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful behemoth, colossus, goliath, giant unusual person, anomaly - a person who is unusual
	3.	monster - a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed freak, lusus naturae, monstrosity leviathan - the largest or most massive thing of its kind; "it was a leviathan among redwoods"; "they were assigned the leviathan of textbooks" mutant, mutation, sport, variation - (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
	4.	monster - a cruel wicked and inhuman person fiend, ogre, demon, devil disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable demoniac - someone who acts as if possessed by a demon
	5.	monster - (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus teras fetus, foetus - an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques acardia - congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters) acephalia, acephalism, acephaly - absence of the head (as in the development of some monsters)

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monster

noun 1. giant, mammoth, titan, colossus, monstrosity, leviathan, behemoth

noun 2. brute, devil, savage, beast, demon, villain, barbarian, fiend, ogre, ghoul, bogeyman

3.

Translations

monster [ˈmɔnstəʳ] n → monstruo

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monster [ˈmɔnstəʳ] n → monstre m

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monster [ˈmɔnstəʳ] n → Ungetüm nt, Monstrum nt;

(imaginary creature) → Ungeheuer nt, Monster nt;

(person) → Unmensch m

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monster [ˈmɔnstəʳ] n → mostro