monster
[noun]
Synonyms:
- brute, beast, demon, devil, fiend, villain
- freak, monstrosity, mutant
- giant, colossus, mammoth, titan
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- huge, colossal, enormous, gigantic, immense, mammoth, massive, stupendous, tremendous

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Related Words: demon, devil, fiend, hellhound, bandersnatch

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. mon‧ster¹ /ˈmɒnstə $ ˈmɑːnstər/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: French; Origin: monstre, from Latin monstrum 'warning, monster', from monere 'to warn']

1. IN STORIES an imaginary or ancient creature that is large, ugly, and frightening:
the remains of a prehistoric monster
the search for the Loch Ness Monster

2. CRUEL PERSON someone who is very cruel and evil:
Only a monster could kill all those women.

3. CHILD a small child, especially one who is behaving badly – used humorously:
I’ve got to get home and feed this little monster.

4. SOMETHING LARGE informal an object, animal etc that is unusually large:
Did you see the fish Dad caught? It was a monster!
There’s a monster of a spider in the bath!

5. DANGEROUS PROBLEM a dangerous or threatening problem, especially one that develops gradually and is difficult to manage

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II. monster² adjective [only before noun]
informal unusually large Synonym : giant:
a monster cat
The song was a monster hit.

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monster
noun
ADJ. big, huge, large | ugly | bug-eyed, hairy, scaly cheap sci-fi films with bug-eyed monsters
evil | alien, mythical, prehistoric | sea | sex The tabloid papers labelled him ‘an evil sex monster’.
Frankenstein's Bad organizations are self-created Frankenstein's monsters, beyond the control or influence of their leaders.
VERB + MONSTER create (often figurative) The government has created a bureaucratic monster.
fight (often figurative) I wanted to fight these monsters: I didn't want to go on living with them.
be inhabited by a barren wilderness inhabited by monsters
MONSTER + VERB devour sb/sth

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monster
ˈmɔnstə
See: green-eyed monster

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

MONSTER
Market Oriented New System for Terrifying Exchanges and Regulators (Ruben Lee in 'What is an Exchange')

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