monster
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monster¹
- /ˈmɒnstə(ɹ)/ UK
- /ˈmɑnstɚ/ US
Rhymes with -ɒnstə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English monstre, from Old French monstre, mostre, moustre, from Latin mōnstrum. Displaced native Old English fīfel and Old English þyrs.
noun monsters · monstre
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A terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or fictional kind.
O, 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear,/ to make an earthquake.
Similar: beast
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A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
Get away from those children, you monster!
Similar: beast
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A badly behaved person, especially a child; a brat.
Sit still, you little monster!
Similar: beast
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A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
That dude playing guitar is a monster.
Similar: beast
- Something very or unusually large. Have you seen those powerlifters on TV? They're monsters.
- A deformed animal or person (especially, a severely deformed one); in previous centuries often taken as an ill omen at the time of its birth. (Offensive when applied to humans in modern usage.) The villagers were worried because the weather had been strange and several monsters had been born among the flocks and people.
- A disabled person, especially a physically disabled person.
- A bizarre or whimsical creature. The children decided Grover was a cuddly monster.
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A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games; a mob
Similar: monstrosity
adjective monstre
verb monsters · monstering · monstered · monstre
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To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
Animals in our world have been monstered by human action as much as the free beasts of the pre-lapsarian state were monstered by the primal crime.
Similar: monsterize
- To behave as a monster to; to terrorise. In 2002, American interrogators on the ground in Afghanistan developed a technique they called “monstering.” The commander “instituted a new rule that a prisoner could be kept awake and in the booth for as long as an interrogator could last.” One “monstering” interrogator engaged in this for thirty
- To harass. Andy Roddick has been monstered by both Federer and Nadal and suffered a 6-2 7-5 7-5 semi-final loss at the hands of the Swiss champion.
- To play (a series of) non-player characters as directed, without having the responsibility of organising the game itself; generally not limited to playing literal monsters or hostile combatants. Are you monstering that event?
Monster²
proper noun
- A surname. And in both cases, a man named Rob Monster – an outspoken born-again Christian and the CEO of a tech company called Epik – made pointed restorations, republishing much of the New Zealand content and putting Gab back online. All in the name, he said, of free speech.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: monstrosity, freak, giant, behemoth, fiend, devil, demon, ogre, colossus, lusus naturae, goliath, stupid, horror, abomination, silly, dumb
Translations
Every language
noun terrifying dangerous creature
| Español | monstruo, vestiglo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 괴물 goemul, 몬스터 monseuteo, 도깨비 dokkaebi |
| 日本語 | 怪物, モンスター monsutā, 化け物, 怪異 |
| 中文 | 妖怪 yāoguài, 怪物 guàiwu, 魔鬼 móguǐ, 妖物 yāowù |
| हिन्दी | राक्षस rākṣas, देव dev, दैत्य daitya, दानव dānav |
| Português | monstro |
| Français | monstre |
| Deutsch | Monster, Ungeheuer |
| Italiano | mostro |
| Ελληνικά | τέρας téras |
| Română | monstru |
| Русский | чудо́вище čudóvišče, монстр monstr, страши́лище strašílišče, чу́дище čúdišče, потво́р potvór |
| Tiếng Việt | quái vật |
| العربية | وَحْش waḥš |
| עברית | מִפְלֶצֶת miflétzet |
noun anti-social person, especially a criminal
| Italiano | mostro |
|---|---|
| Ελληνικά | τέρας téras |
| Русский | и́зверг ízverg, чудо́вище čudóvišče, монстр monstr, не́людь néljudʹ |
noun a prodigy
| Español | monstruo, fiera |
|---|---|
| Français | bête, monstre |
| Русский | вундерки́нд vundɛrkínd, ге́ний génij |
noun something unusually large
| Русский | грома́дина gromádina, коло́сс kolóss, здоровяк zdorovjak, гигант gigant |
|---|
noun bizarre or whimsical creature
| Ελληνικά | τέρας téras |
|---|---|
| Русский | уро́д uród, чудо́вище čudóvišče, чу́дище čúdišče, страши́лище strašílišče, пу́гало púgalo, чу́чело čúčelo |
adj very large
| Français | monstrueux |
|---|---|
| Ελληνικά | τέρας téras |
| Русский | чудо́вищный čudóviščnyj |
Talk about this word "monster." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/monster. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. monster. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/monster "monster." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/monster.Cite this
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title = {monster},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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