monsternoun [ C ]
uk/ˈmɒn.stər/us/ˈmɑːn.stɚ/monster noun [ C ] (CREATURE)
B1 any imaginary frightening creature, especially one that is large and strange:
a sea monster
prehistoric monsters
the Loch Ness monster
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- The monster roared and gnashed its teeth.
- The Incredible Hulk is a character in a comic who turns from a scientist into a two-metre tall monster.
- The movie was about a huge green monster.
- He thinks there are monsters under his bed.
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Strange, suspicious and unnatural things and people
- alien
- anomaly
- Dalek
- deviant
- dwarf
- fairy
- fish
- Frankenstein
- Martian
- mutant
- oddball
- oddity
- perv
- quirk
- screwball
- time traveller
- twilight
- twilight zone idiom
- wacko
- weirdo
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monster noun [ C ] (PERSON)
C2 a cruel person:
You'd have to be a monster to hit a child like that.
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Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
- acerbic
- acidly
- backbite
- backbiting
- backhanded
- barbaric
- bilious
- cruelty
- cutthroat
- fiendish
- hard-hearted
- have a heart of stone idiom
- malign
- pitiless
- remorseless
- ruthless
- sadism
- sadist
- unsympathetic
- waspish
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monster noun [ C ] (LARGE)
informal something that is very big, or too big:
You should have seen the onions he grew for the competition - they were monsters!
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Enormous
- a whale of a idiom
- almighty
- astronomical
- astronomically
- behemoth
- ginormous
- huge
- humungous
- immeasurable
- immense
- oversize
- overwhelming
- precipitous
- prodigious
- sth knows no bounds idiom
- stratospheric
- thumping
- walloping
- whopping
- yawning
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monsteradjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈmɒn.stər/us/ˈmɑːn.stɚ/informalvery big:
a monster housing development
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Enormous
- a whale of a idiom
- almighty
- astronomical
- astronomically
- behemoth
- ginormous
- huge
- humungous
- immeasurable
- immense
- oversize
- overwhelming
- precipitous
- prodigious
- sth knows no bounds idiom
- stratospheric
- thumping
- walloping
- whopping
- yawning
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monsterverb [ T ]
uk/ˈmɒn.stər/us/ˈmɑːn.stɚ/UK informalto criticize someone severely or to treat someone very badly:
Andy Smith has been monstered by the media.
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Disapproving & criticizing
- -basher
- animadversion
- aspersions
- backbite
- bad-mouth
- belabour
- damn
- damn sb with faint praise idiom
- denounce
- disapproval
- give sb hell idiom
- lashing
- pitch into sb/sth
- pound
- pound away at sth/sb
- pull sth apart
- put the boot in idiom
- take a dim view of sth idiom
- talk trash idiom
- throw
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