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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

... monster making an effort to keep in its normal position, as it swam slowly round and round, but always rolling back, and rising helplessly every time ...

— Bunyip Land - A Story of Adventure in New Guinea • George Manville Fenn

... taught him to read and write in prison, and expounded the Gospel to him. They exhorted him, worked upon him, drummed at him incessantly, till at last he solemnly confessed his crime. He was converted. He wrote to the court himself that he was a monster, but that in the end God had vouchsafed him light and shown grace. All Geneva was in excitement about him—all philanthropic and religious Geneva. All the aristocratic and well-bred society of the town rushed to ...

— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... drawing-room and play the piano, or sit under the garden trees and gaze on the fair blue sea, and hope fervently that, with a strong Tory government to protect our institutions, this hotel may be long kept hid from that merciless monster the "Company (Limited)." But already a railway runs here, and threatens its quiet. Even a steamer now and then from France screws its way into the very narrow channel, where the river Arun has wound down thus ...

— The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" • John MacGregor

... silver, or the sturdy Mississippi tears its path through unbroken forests, and it will do your heart good to see the gallant boat walking the waters with unbroken and powerful tread, and, like some fabled monster of the wave, breathing fire and making the shores resound with its deep respirations. Then there is something mysterious—even awful—in the power of steam. See it curling up against a blue sky some rosy morning, ...

— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn

... distance acoss the river to a sandbar & it was at least twenty minutes before he died; he did not attempt to attact, but fled and made the most tremendous roaring from the moment he was shot. We had no means of weighing this monster; Capt. Clark thought he would weigh 500 lbs. for my own part I think the estimate too small by 100 lbs. he measured 8 Feet 71/2 Inches from the nose to the extremety of the hind feet, 5 F. to 1/2 Inch arround the breast, 1 F. 11 I. arround the middle of the arm, & 3 F. 11 I. arround the ...

— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

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