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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.

Monsters are big. Monsters are hairy. And monsters are certainly scary. Think of the Abominable Snow Man, that Loch Ness creature, or even Shrek — even though he's technically an ogre. This word isn't only for the imaginary, though: you could call anything freakish, frightening, or particularly evil a monster, like a cruel murderer or even a really big, violent storm.

DEFINITIONS OF: monster

n an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts

Examples:: show 5 examples...; hide 5 examples...; Sasquatch
large hairy humanoid creature said to live in wilderness areas of the United States and Canada; Loch Ness monster
a large aquatic animal supposed to resemble a serpent or plesiosaur of Loch Ness in Scotland; Fafnir
(Norse mythology) the Norse dragon that guarded a treasure and was slain by Sigurd; Python
(Greek mythology) dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi; Eumenides
(classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals

Types:: show 26 types...; hide 26 types...; bogeyman, booger, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear
an imaginary monster used to frighten children; mythical creature, mythical monster
a monster renowned in folklore and myth; legendary creature
a monster that is unverifiable but popularly accepted as possibly factual; amphisbaena
(classical mythology) a serpent with a head at each end of its body; basilisk
(classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance; centaur
(classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse; Cerberus, hellhound
(Greek mythology) the three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades; son of Typhon; Chimaera, Chimera
(Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon; cockatrice
monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance; dragon, firedrake
a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings; Geryon
(Greek mythology) a mythical monster with three heads that was slain by Hercules; Gorgon
(Greek mythology) any of three winged sister monsters and the mortal Medusa who had live snakes for hair; a glance at Medusa turned the beholder to stone; griffin, griffon, gryphon
winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion; Harpy
(Greek mythology) vicious winged monster; often depicted as a bird with the head of a woman; Hydra
(Greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones; leviathan
monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament; mantichora, manticora, manticore, mantiger
a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion; Minotaur
(Greek mythology) a mythical monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man; slain by Theseus; Nemean lion
(Greek mythology) an enormous lion strangled by Hercules as the first of his 12 labors; roc
mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength; salamander
reptilian creature supposed to live in fire; Sphinx
(Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon; troll
(Scandanavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains; Typhoeus
(Greek mythology) son of Gaea and Tartarus who created the whirlwinds; had a terrifying voice and 100 dragon heads that spurted fire; Typhon
(Greek mythology) a monster with a hundred heads who breathed out flames; son of Typhoeus and father of Cerberus and the Chimera and the Sphinx; loup-garou, lycanthrope, werewolf, wolfman
a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again

Type of:: imaginary being, imaginary creature
a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction

n someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

Synonyms:: behemoth, colossus, giant, goliath

Type of:: anomaly, unusual person
a person who is unusual

n a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed

Synonyms:: freak, lusus naturae, monstrosity

Types:: leviathan
the largest or most massive thing of its kind

Type of:: mutant, mutation, sport, variation
(biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration

n a cruel wicked and inhuman person

Synonyms:: demon, devil, fiend, ogre

Types:: demoniac
someone who acts as if possessed by a demon

Type of:: disagreeable person, unpleasant person
a person who is not pleasant or agreeable

n (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus

Synonyms:: teras

Type of:: fetus, foetus
an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal

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