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monster Definition

mon·ster (män′stər)

noun

  1. any plant or animal of abnormal shape or structure, as one greatly malformed or lacking some parts; monstrosity
  2. any imaginary creature part human and part animal in form, as a centaur, or made up of the parts of two or more different animals, as a dragon
  3. something monstrous
  4. a person so cruel, wicked, depraved, etc. as to horrify others
  5. any huge animal or thing
  6. Pathology a malformed fetus, esp. one with an excess or deficiency of limbs or parts; teratism

Etymology: ME monstre < OFr < L monstrum, divine portent of misfortune, monster < monere, to admonish, warn: see monitor

adjective

huge; enormous; monstrous

monster Synonyms

monster

n.

  1. A great beast

    beast, beastlike creature, basilisk, imaginary monster, centaur, monstrosity, Gorgon, sphinx, Minotaur, Hydra, kraken, Python, salamander, chimera, lamia, unicorn, echidna, dragon, griffin, cyclops, cockatrice, hippocampus, phoenix, mermaid, hippogriff, gyascutus, androsphinx, dipsas, sagittary, sea serpent, hippocentaur, manticore, hippocert, whangdoodle, roe, bucentaur, rhinoceros, elephant, lycanthrope, werewolf, uturuncu.

  2. An unnatural creation

    abnormality, abnormity, monstrosity; see freak 2.

monster Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • slay: The title, a pun on ' Hydro ' , refers to the many-headed monster slain by Hercules.
  • rampage: It's a much more delicate and florid piece than the loopy Mr. Vengeance or the rampaging monster of a movie that was Oldboy.
  • unleash: But the political monsters unleashed by Britain to police it nearly 80 years ago live on.

Preposition: in

  • closet: There was a repulsive, green monster in the closet.

Adjective modifier

  • green-eyed: Meanwhile, Arun has noticed the spark of chemistry between Pat and Sheena and is quick to allow the green-eyed monster to surface.
  • hideous: The ball was actually the thing - Lucy's hideous monster - the Green Angel.
  • scary: Lead Scooby and Shaggy through five huge episodes filled with scary monsters and spooky ghosts.
  • mythical: Well Rahab apparently was the name of an ancient mythical sea monster.
  • terrifying: This is not a congenial creature in the Disney mold but an utterly terrifying monster with jagged teeth and eyes which blaze like torches.
  • hairy: Yet it still suited Chinese notions of self-esteem to perpetuate the myth of their own supremacy, and to picture barbarians as hairy monsters.

Modifies a noun

  • truck: The monster trucks kicked up enough dirt to fill the air with a brown haze.
  • mash: Tag line: " It's a real monster mash when they clash!
  • hunter: Nessie on the Net A must for monster hunters!
  • movie: Alien is a terrific monster movie with science fiction trappings.

Noun used with modifier

  • ness: A full schedule cast of celebrity loch ness monster shipmates who were.
  • fire-breathing: The boys loved it, but the girls loved it just as much because it's not just fire-breathing monsters on there.
  • mache: Then - and how can I forget, we started a papier mache monster head.
  • loch: A full schedule cast of celebrity loch ness monster shipmates who were.
  • fx: In an overlayed frame, Inuyasha looks quite annoyed. ] fx monster Stay there and sulk while I do this.
  • sea: You'll make a tasty snack for the sea monster.
monster Quotes

All pictorial or plastic art is useless; art should be a monster which casts servile minds into terror.

—Tzara,Tristan pseudonym of Samy Rosenstock

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

—Smollett,Tobias George

Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted UncleTom than she knocked him off his bicycle and told him.

—Lee, Laurie

Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.

—Muggeridge, Malcolm

They died When time was open-eyed, Wooden and childish; only bones abide There, in the nowhere, where their boats were tossed Sky-high, where mariners had fabled news of IS, the whited monster.

—Lowell, RobertTraill Spence,Jr

There still remains, to mortifya wit, The many-headed monster of the pit.

—Pope, Alexander

   Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de¤ v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.

—Balzac, Honore¤   de

The monster was indeed the best friend I could ever have.

—Karloff, Boris originally  William Henry Pratt

   A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadful fiend of gods and men ydrad.

—Spenser, Edmund

Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid. So strong, so swift, the monster there's no gagging: Cut Scandal's head off, still the tongue is wagging.

—Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease.

—cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

—Pope, Alexander