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noun

Monster n.

Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel. "A monster or marvel."

Specifically, an animal or plant departing greatly from the usual type, as by having too many limbs.

Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.

verb

Monster v. t. To make monstrous. (Obs.)

adjective

Monster adj.

Monstrous in size.

Enormous or very powerful; as, he drove a monster Harley. (informal)

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Etymology of 'Monster'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Monster" Quotes from Famous Books

... general, true as the romance of Cleopatra, the world will not know which is the true and which the false. Here was a gentleman attending here that told us he saw the other day (and did bring the draught of it to Sir Francis Prigeon) of a monster born of an hostler's wife at Salisbury, two women children perfectly made, joyned at the lower part of their bellies, and every part perfect as two bodies, and only one payre of legs coming forth on one side from the middle where they were joined. It was alive 24 ...

— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... motion in the physical world; justice and love for our neighbors are based on utility; we seek friends in order to be amused, aided, and, in misfortune, compassionated by them; the philanthropist and the monster both seek only their ...

— History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg

... immeasurable and inconceivable, until the crowd of brutes, its blood-lust sated, terrified by what it saw, begged them impartially to cease. And Cheese- Face, ready to drop and die, or to stay on his legs and die, a grisly monster out of whose features all likeness to Cheese-Face had been beaten, wavered and hesitated; but Martin sprang in and smashed him ...

— Martin Eden • Jack London

... each found himself trying to recall the other with greater distinctness and able to recall nothing but queer, ominous and minatory traits. The doctor's impression of the great fuel specialist grew ever darker, leaner, taller and more impatient. Sir Richmond took on the likeness of a monster obdurate and hostile, he spread upwards until like the Djinn out of the bottle, he darkened the heavens. And he talked too much. He talked ever so much too much. Sir Richmond also thought that the doctor talked too much. In addition, he read into his imperfect memory of the doctor's ...

— The Secret Places of the Heart • H. G. Wells

... own consciences. He was not the last priest who has allowed the supposed wishes of the populace to shape his representations of God, and has knowingly dropped the standard of duty or sullied the clear brightness of truth in deference to the many-voiced monster. ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers • Alexander Maclaren

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