monster

[mon·ster]

Monsters are imaginary scary creatures that lurk in dark places and horror movies. If it's got 3 heads, shark teeth and lives under your bed, then it's probably a monster.

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

Noun
(medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus

Noun
an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts

Noun
a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed

Noun
someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

Noun
a cruel wicked and inhuman person

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n.
Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel.

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

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

a.
Monstrous in size.

v. t.
To make monstrous.


Monster

Mon"ster , n. [OE. monstre, F. monstre, fr. L. monstrum, orig., a divine omen, indicating misfortune; akin of monstrare to show, point out, indicate, and monere to warn. See Monition, and cf. Demonstrate, Muster.] 1. Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel.
A monster or marvel.
2. Specifically , an animal or plant departing greatly from the usual type, as by having too many limbs. 3. Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.

Monster

Mon"ster, a. Monstrous in size. Pope.

Monster

Mon"ster, v. t. To make monstrous. [Obs.] Shak.

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

Monstrous in size.

To make monstrous.

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Usage Examples

I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.

The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off.

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Other Usage Examples

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in ''94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it.

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

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