monster
monster is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Specifically , an animal or plant departing greatly from the usual type, as by having too many limbs.
- 2.Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.
- 3.Monstrous in size. Pope.
- 4.To make monstrous. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- barbary
- bomb
- can
- coup
- curiosity
- envious
- eruption
- eye
- fire
- gazingstock
- green-eyed
- jaundiced
- jealous
- jealousness
- jealousy
- light
- lion
- marvel
- mirabilis
- miracle
- paint
- peal
- phenomenon
- pigeon
- poi
- portent
- prodigy
- shell
- sight
- sign
- spectacle
- suspicion
- the
- theatre
- thunder
- unconformity
- view
- volcanic
- what
- with
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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