Thesaurus: monster

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1. n. Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel.
2. n. Specifically , an animal or plant departing greatly from the usual type, as by having too many limbs.
3. n. Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.
4. a. Monstrous in size.
5. v. t. To make monstrous.
6. n. an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts
7. n. someone that is abnormally large and powerful
8. n. a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
9. n. a cruel wicked and inhuman person
10. n. (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus
11. 1. Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel. A monster or marvel. Chaucer. 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. Monstrous in size. Pope. To make monstrous. [Obs.] Shak.
12. Monstrous in size. Pope.