monster

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noun

mon·ster ˈmän(t)-stər

plural monsters

Synonyms of monster next

: an animal of strange or terrifying shape

a mythical monster

a sea monster

… visualize this scaleless monster, eight or nine feet long, sprawling in the shade by the side of the mud pools …—

W. E. Swinton

: one unusually large for its kind

That truck is a monster.

That's why I was born in my grandmother's house—a grand, brick Federal monster of a house.—

John Irving

: an animal or plant of abnormal form or structure

: one who deviates from normal or acceptable behavior or character

an immoral monster

: a threatening force

the same monster—Destiny … that rolls every civilization to doom—

W. L. Sullivan

: something monstrous

especially : a person of unnatural or extreme ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty

a cruel monster of a father

: one that is highly successful

That movie was a monster at the box office.

monster

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adjective

: enormous or impressive especially in size, extent, or numbers

Example Sentences

Noun That car is a monster. Inflation has become an economic monster. Adjective The movie turned out to be a monster hit.

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Best known for his special effects makeup work on the Terminator and Jurassic Park franchises, Winston had directed and co-written the 1988 monster movie Pumpkinhead. —

Clark Collis, EW.com, 30 May 2023 Then, got another monster stop to end the first half, when blitzing linebacker Cecil Cherry sacked Daquan Neal, celebrating all the way into the locker room at Footprint Center on Saturday night. —

Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2023 His sense of humor was severely tested Feb. 18, 1979, when a monster storm barreled east out of Western Maryland. —

Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2023 The mid-Atlantic and southeastern states are the only areas of the country where the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) is not warning of the potential for outages in the event of prolonged and intense heat waves or monster storms. —

Evan Halper, Washington Post, 17 May 2023 Moreover, polyester is a monster at wicking moisture and drying fast, so no sweat with this one. —

Maverick Li, menshealth.com, 11 May 2023 Fox News is also facing a monster $2.7 billion lawsuit from the voting technology company Smartmatic. —

Oliver Darcy, CNN, 10 May 2023 Multiple baseballs are lost after they're thrown into The Beast's backyard, never to be seen again as the boys live in fear of the monster dog on the other side. —

Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 9 May 2023 With high-octane action sequences, gripping suspense, and terrifying monsters, Resident Evil is an exhilarating cinematic experience that leaves fans of the genre clamoring for more. —

Travis Bean, Forbes, 6 May 2023

Adjective

Warm water is the fuel that helps hurricanes sustain themselves and to occasionally become monster storms, so such unusually warm water is a major worry. —

WSJ, 25 May 2023 East Central sophomore Isabella Hernandez had a monster second-round playoff series against Dripping Springs, going 8-for-13 with four runs batted in. —

Jeffrey Perkins, San Antonio Express-News, 13 May 2023 Hot disks of dust and gas swirling down the gravitational drains of monster black holes are what drive quasars, some of the brightest objects in the universe. —

Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 28 Mar. 2023 As Yennefer runs off with Ciri, Geralt stays behind, and The Witcher delivers one of the better non-monster fight scenes of its entire run. —

Scott Meslow, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021 This set of beach toys from Kohl's is only $10, and features an adorably themed set of tools like a sifter, rake, shovel, mini-monster truck and more. —

Felicity Warner, USA TODAY, 29 June 2021 There are other, younger humans in Godzilla vs. Kong, to further tip the monster-human scale in the wrong direction. —

Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 31 Mar. 2021 See More

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