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monster

[ mon-ster ]

noun

  1. a nonhuman creature so ugly or monstrous as to frighten people.
  2. any creature grotesquely deviating from the normal shape, behavior, or character.
  3. a person who provokes or elicits horror by wickedness, cruelty, etc.

    Synonyms: , , , ,

  4. any animal or thing huge in size.
  5. a legendary animal combining features of animal and human form or having the forms of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx.
  6. Biology.
    1. an animal or plant of abnormal form or structure, as from marked malformation or the absence of certain parts or organs.
    2. a grossly anomalous fetus or infant, especially one that is not viable.
  7. anything unnatural or monstrous.


adjective

  1. huge; enormous; monstrous:

    a monster tree.

monster

/ ˈ³¾É’²Ô²õ³ÙÉ™ /

noun

  1. an imaginary beast, such as a centaur, usually made up of various animal or human parts
  2. a person, animal, or plant with a marked structural deformity
  3. a cruel, wicked, or inhuman person
    1. a very large person, animal, or thing
    2. ( as modifier )

      a monster cake

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. informal.
    to criticize (a person or group) severely
  2. sport to use intimidating tactics against (an opponent)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¾´Ç²Ôs³Ù±ð°ù·±ô¾±°ì±ð adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of monster1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English monstre, from Latin ³¾Å²Ô²õ³Ù°ù³Ü³¾ “portent, unnatural event, monster,†from ³¾´Ç²Ô(ŧ°ù±ð) “to warn†+ -strum, noun suffix
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of monster1

C13: from Old French monstre, from Latin monstrum portent, from ³¾´Ç²Ôŧ°ù±ð to warn
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Idioms and Phrases

see green-eyed monster .
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Example Sentences

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“She hasn’t turned sleazy, hasn’t become part of a ‘12-fanged monster’ determined to do nothing but titillate and trash up the airwaves with its tawdry yarns,†staff writer Steve Weinstein wrote.

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"These dogs are so powerful, they're so big and if you push them to their fullest capacity to be this big monster then it can happen," Lily says.

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Collet-Serra knots that thread with a third-act scene of unexpected tenderness, where Ramona and the woman do what people and monsters so rarely do: talk.

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My years in the animal care industry were a sociological study that gave me a peek at our culture’s real monsters.

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A babysitter found a man hiding under a child's bed in Kansas after the child complained about a "monster" being there.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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