Monster

Definition: Monster

Monster

Noun

1. An imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts.

2. Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful.

3. A person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed.

4. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.

5. (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "monster" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Monster

Bad Man

Villain, rascal, scoundrel, miscreant, budmash, caitiff; wretch, reptile, viper, serpent, basilisk, urchin; tiger, monster; devil; (demon); devil incarnate; demon in human shape, Nana Sahib; hellhound, hellcat; rakehell.

Demon

Noun: demon, daemon, demonry, demonology; evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil; bad spirit, unclean spirit; cacodemon, incubus, Eblis, shaitan, succubus, succuba; Frankenstein's monster; Shedim, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Moloch, Belial, Ahriman; fury, harpy; Friar Rush.

Evil doer

Monster; fiend; (demon); devil incarnate, demon in human shape; Frankenstein's monster.

Jealousy

Noun: jealousy,jealousness; jaundiced eye; envious suspicion, suspicion; " green-eyed monster "; yellows; Juno.

Prodigy

Noun: prodigy, phenomenon; wonder, wonderment; marvel, miracle; monster; (unconformity); curiosity, lion, sight, spectacle; jeu de theatre, coup de theatre; gazingstock; sign; St. Elmo's fire, St. Elmo's light; portent.

Size

Huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite.

Giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; "Triton among the minnows".

Ugliness

Eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright; monster; dog, woofer, pig; octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, "monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum".

Unconformity

Nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid, hermaphrodite.

Noun: {opp. } nonconformity; unconformity, disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness; Adjective: exception, peculiarity; infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage; teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi, monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant; rouser, snorter.

Crosswords: Monster

Afrikaan (monster, sample, specimen), Dutch (monster, sample, specimen), German (monster, monstrosity), Swedish (freak, leviathan, monster, monsters, monstrosity, ogre).

You are a monster, and my father is a great man. You're nothing like my father (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe)

Though the fire seemed to spread through the quarter, I stood on that deck, fearful he would come out again from the very river, like some monster, to destroy us both (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

They made you into a real monster, right (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire)

There's a monster in your chest (Alien Resurrection; writing credit: Joss Whedon.)

Hey may the best monster win. (Monsters, Inc.; writing credit: Robert L. Baird; Jill Culton)

Because there's a monster living under my bed (Put Your Lights On; performing artist: Everlast)

Where I am the scary monster (Telling Stories; performing artist: Tracy Chapman)

Party Monster (2003)

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)

Monster I (1971)

The Johnstown Monster (1971)

Mad Monster Party? (1967)

Bug Eyed Monster (performing artist: Jordin Kare)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• M Is for Monster (Monsters, Inc.) (reference)

• Monster (reference)

• The Everything Kids' Mazes Book: Twist, Squirm, and Wind Your Way Through Subways, Museums, Monster Lairs, and Tombs (Everything Kids Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Mad Monster Party (reference)

• There Goes a Monster Truck (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Sea Monster (reference)

• Monster -- Boxed Set [BOX SET] [LIMITED EDITION] (reference)

• Monster Ballads (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Tonka Monster Trucks (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Prazi PR7500 Monster Hook Multi-Tool Holder (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"A Monster Born of a Ewe". In: "Journal des Observations Physiques, Mathematiques et Botaniques ...." by Louis Feuillee, 1660-1732. Published in 1714. P. 242. Library Call Number Q115 .F43 1714. A "monster" observed by the author in Buenos Aires in 1708. The author was serious as he reported this creature to the King of France. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Storm, shipwreck, and sea monster - In: Meteorologia philosophico-politica .... Reinzer, Franz, 1661-1708. Published in 1709. P. 55. Call Number: QC859 .R37 1709. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Monster buoy stands watch and delivers life support to AQUARIUS. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

General Jackson slaying the many headed monster. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lo, the fell monster with the deadly sting who passes mountains, breaks through fenced walls and firm embattled spears, and with his filth taints all the world - Dante's Inferno. Credit: Library of Congress.

Smoking monster engine destroying town. Credit: Library of Congress.

Help! A monster!. Credit: Library of Congress.

The monster painter. Credit: Library of Congress.

On the western front. One of the monster British guns. Credit: Library of Congress.

The war of the workshop. Monster guns in a British munitions factory. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I saw a monster come with speed, Its face of grimmliest green, On human beings used to feed, Most dreadful to be seen

It seemed as if this mass had become a monster, and had but a single mind

You mean I am a monster.

The bank, the monster owns it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "monster": cookie monster ♦ Frankenstein's monster ♦ gila monster ♦ little monster ♦ Loch Ness monster ♦ mythical monster ♦ sea monster. Additional references.

Beginning with "monster": Monster-from-the-blue-lagoon, monster-god, monster-gore, monster-legend, monster-loving, monster-maker, monster-making, Monster-meh'lindi, monster-rat, monster-watchers.

Ending with "monster": sea-monster.

Afrikaans

monster (sample, specimen). (various references)

Albanian

vigan (colossal, enormous, giant, gigantesque, huge, immense, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, mountainous, ogre, Samson, swingeing, Titanic, towering), përbindësh, kolos (colossus), i stërmadh (huge, monstrous, prodigious), gjigant (abnormal, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantesque, gigantic, huge). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مسخ (deform, deformation, disfigure, metamorphosis), ‏حيوان مخيف, ‏الهولة حيوان غريب الشكل, ‏شىء ضخم بالنسبة لحجمه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

урод (abnormity, monstrosity, mooncalf), чудовищен (enormous, miscreated, monstrous, prodigious, unnatural), чудовище (beast, monstrosity), колос (colossus), грамаден (enormous, exceeding, huge, immeasurable, immense, lumping, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious), грамада (mass, pile), изрод (abnormity, mooncalf), изчадие (abortion, spawn), изверг (hell-hound, miscreant). (various references)

Chinese 

妖怪 (devil). (various references)

Czech

příšera (thing), obluda, netvor, nestvùra. (various references)

Danish

tvillingemonster (duplicitas, twin monster), dobbeltmisdannelse (duplicitas, twin monster). (various references)

Dutch

rotbeest, mormel. (various references)

Esperanto

monstro, hundaĉo, bestaĉo. (various references)

Faeroese

skrímsl. (various references)

Farsi 

هیولا (Monstrosity, Monstrous), عفریت , عظیم الجثه (Gargantuan, Whale), اعجوبه (Prodigy, Wonder). (various references)

Finnish

hirviö, epäsikiö. (various references)

French

monstre (monstrous). (various references)

Frisian

meunster (sample, specimen). (various references)

German

Ungeheuer (atrocious, colossal, dreadful, egregious, egregiously, enormous, enormously, giant, huge, hugely, immense, immensely, infinitely, inordinate, mammoth, monsters, monstrosities, monstrous, monstrously, monumental, ogre, ogress, outrageous, prodigious, prodigiously, terror, tremendous), scheusal (fright, zombie), Unhold (fiend), Ungetüm, Monstrum (freak, monstrosity), monster (monstrosity). (various references)

Greek 

κτήνος (animal, beast, brute), έκτρωμα (abnormity, abortion, freak), μεγαθήριο (leviathan, megatherium), τέρασ (abortion, freak, prodigy), τέρας, τεράστιοσ (enormous, gargantuan, huge, prodigious, stupendous). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפלצת (bete noire, bogey, freak, horror, monstrosity). (various references)

Hungarian

szörny (abnormality, monstrosity, monstruosity). (various references)

Indonesian

siluman (ghost), raksasa (giant, ogre). (various references)

Italian

mostro (fiend, freak, miracle, monstrosities, monstrous, ogre). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

怪獣 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おばけ (apparition, ghost, goblin), モンスター , ばけもの (apparition, ghost, goblin, phantom, spectre), かいぶつ, かいじゅう (ambiguous, conciliation, equivocal, marine animal, obscure), やじゅう (beast, wild animal), ようかい (apparition, demon, fusing, ghost, goblin, melting, phantom, solution, spectre), へんけい (deformation, deformity, metamorphosis, modification, transformation, variation, variety). (various references)

Korean 

괴물. (various references)

Manx

peisht, beisht (beast, toad, toad of person, worm). (various references)

Papago

cheadagi (Gila monster). (various references)

Papiamen

mònster. (various references)

Pig Latin

onstermay.(various references)

Portuguese

monstro (abortion, monstrosity, walloper). (various references)

Romanian

monstruos (awful, colossal, huge, monstrous, monstrously, shocking, strapping, unnatural), monstru (abomination, abortion, fright, heteroclite, jumbo, moloch, monstrosity, mooncalf), uriaş (astronomic, astronomical, colossal, colossus, elephantine, enormous, giant, giantlike, gigantic, goliath, huge, immense, infinite, mammoth, mite, monumental, mountainous, ogre, prodigious, strapping, thumping, vast), gigantic (colossal, giant, giantlike, gigantic, huge, mammoth, Titanic, vast), dihanie (monstrosity), de monstru, colosal (astronomic, astronomical, capitally, colossal, colossally, enormous, enormously, gigantic, grand, huge, jumbo, monstrous, mountain, ocean-wide, smashing, some, strapping, terrible, thundering, vast), cãpcãun (brute, moloch, ogre), bestie (beast), balã (dragon, wild beast). (various references)

Russian 

чудовище (beast). (various references)

Scottish

uamhas (dread, horror, object of, terror). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

monstrum, rugoba, ogroman (enormous, gargantuan, huge, immense, jumbo, lumping, oversized, stupendous, swingeing, tremendous, vast, vasty, whopping), neman (calamity, gorgon, hydra), čudovište (afreet, mooncalf). (various references)

Spanish

monstruo (caliban, colossus, dragon, dread, freak, giant). (various references)

Swedish

vidunder (juggernaut, miracle, monstrosity, orc, prodigy), odjur (beast, brute, fiend, monstrosity, ogre), monster (freak, leviathan, monsters, monstrosity, ogre). (various references)

Turkish

ucube, kocaman (big, bulky, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, fab, frightful, gargantuan, gigantean, gigantic, gross, huge, hugely, hulking, hulky, jumbo-sized, mammoth, of vast dimensions, prodigious, rousing, tearing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping), dev (colossal, colossus, cyclopean, giant, giantess, goliath, huge, kingsize, massy, titan), canavar (beast, brute, chimera, monstrosity, ogre). (various references)

Turkmen 

gorkunз (dangerous, frightening). (various references)

Ukrainian

велетенський (giantlike, gigantesque, mammoth), виродок (bantling, bastard, deformity, degenerate, golliwog, yellow dog), потвора (chimera, freak, gorgon). (various references)

Vietnamese 

to lớn (bouncing, bulky, capacious, colossal, cyclopean, enourmous, enourmously, goodly, great, howling, huge, mammoth, massive, massy, titanic), quái vật (abnormalcy, abnormality, abnormity, snark), người quái ác, người gớm guốc quái thai, khổng lồ (colossal, decuman, gargantuan, giantlike, gigantic, huge, mammoth, thumping, titanesque, titanic). (various references)

Welsh

clobyn, cloben, clamp (bunch, lump, mass), anghenfil. (various references)

belua, mole, molem, monstra, monstris, monstrorum, monstrum, onocentauris. (various references)

sceadugenga. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "monster": monstera, monsteras, monsters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Monster" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kostner, Manessier, minestra, minstero, mnster, momser, Monastero, Monastir, Moncer, moncytes, monester, moneta, monitel, moniter, moniteur, monset, Monsted, Monstera, monstero, monstery, monstor, Monsue, montee, monter, Montero, montre, moodster, mosner, mostar, Mounter, Mountsey, mouster, munester, mynster. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mentors.

-1 letter: mentor, metros, montes, nestor, noters, sermon, stoner, tenors, tensor, toners, trones.

-2 letters: enorm, meson, metro, monte, mores, morns, morse, morts, moste, motes, nerts, nomes, norms, noter, notes, omens, omers, onset, rents, roset, rotes, senor, seton, smote, snore, snort, steno, stern, stone, store, storm, tenor, terms, terns, tomes, toner, tones, tores, torse, trone.

+1 letter: mesotron, monstera, monsters, monteros, mordents, mounters, onstream, remounts, tonearms, torments.

+2 letters: anterooms, brimstone, emanators, entoderms, fomenters, horsemint, innermost, intercoms, marlstone, mesotrons, mestranol, misorient, modernest, modernist, moistener, monastery, monoester, monsteras, motioners, ornaments, orpiments, oysterman, oystermen, remoisten, remotions, rousement, sportsmen, sternmost, strongmen, thermions, trombones, undermost.

+3 letters: adornments, aeronomist, antismoker, assortment, astronomer, augmentors, brimstones, brominates, centrosome, concretism, contemners, contemnors, cremations, downstream, endotherms, enormities, enrolments, ergonomist, fermentors, fromenties, gastronome, heteronyms, horsemints, importunes, innermosts, ironmaster, lobsterman, lobstermen, magnetrons, manometers, manticores, marlstones, mellotrons, mentioners, mentorship, mesenteron, mestranols, metronomes, microtones, minestrone, ministroke, minorities, misfortune, misorients, modernists, moisteners, monestrous, monetarism, monetarist, moneyworts, monitories, monoesters, monometers, monotremes, monstrance, morganites, moronities, nanometers, nethermost, numerators, outnumbers, postmodern, premoisten, promptness, protamines, remoistens, remoteness, resumption, rousements, sermonette, smothering, stenotherm, storminess, stramonies, surmounted, tonometers, tormenters, tormentils, tormentors, tremendous, treponemas, treponemes, uniformest, worriments.