Definitions for monster

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IPA: /ˈmɒn stər/

Monster is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 256 anagrams from letters in monster (emnorst).

Definitions for monster

noun

1. a legendary animal combining features of animal and human form or having the forms of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx.
2. any creature so ugly or monstrous as to frighten people.
3. any animal or human grotesquely deviating from the normal shape, behavior, or character.
4. a person who excites horror by wickedness, cruelty, etc.
5. any animal or thing huge in size.
6. Biology. an animal or plant of abnormal form or structure, as from marked malformation or the absence of certain parts or organs. a grossly anomalous fetus or infant, especially one that is not viable.
7. anything unnatural or monstrous.

adjective

1. huge; enormous; monstrous:

Origin of monster

1250-1300; Middle English monstre Latin mōnstrum portent, unnatural event, monster, equivalent to mon(ēre) to warn + -strum noun suffix

Examples for monster

I testified merely eight feet from this monster at a preliminary hearing.

I thank God that I was not born an emperor, or I might have become a monster.

But in those days a father who demanded obedience wasn't considered a monster.

"Thou hast slain the monster," cried Ariadne, clasping her hands.

There was something cathartic about deleting this 2,500-word monster of a farewell, and resolving to live.

But Theseus by this time had leaped up, and caught the monster off his guard.

The two parties—mother and son, and monster—live in the same house, and are safe and healthy.

I always loved monster movies because I identified with the monster and connected with it.

Siegfried went through the brush in the direction from which the monster had come.

In its presence--jolting, sudden, horrific—the monster is the monster of grief.