monster

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. monstrosity, freak; prodigy; giant; demon, brute. See unconformity, size, ugliness, evildoer. Ant., midget.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [A Great beast]

Syn. beast, beastlike creature, basilisk, imaginary monster, centaur, monstrosity, Gorgon, sphinx, Minotaur, Hydra, kraken, Python, salamander, chimera, lamia, unicorn, echiDNA, dragon, griffin, cyclops, cockatrice, hippocampus, phoenix, mermaid, hippogriff, gyascutus, androsphinx, dipsas, sagittary, sea serpent, hippocentaur, manticore, hippocert, whangdoodle, roe, bucentaur, rhinoceros, elephant, lycanthrope, werewolf, uturuncu.

2. [An unnatural creation]

Syn. abnormality, abnormity, monstrosity; see freak 2 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

1. unnatural beast creature, mutant, miscreation, ogre, freak of nature, monstrosity, boogieman, brute, thing, *it, *lab experiment, dragon, drake, sea serpent, kraken, hydra, Loch Ness Monster (Nessie), Champ (Lake Champlain), yeti, Bigfoot, abominable snowman, Frankenstein, werewolf, vampire, ghoul, goblin, hobgoblin, zombie, incubus, succubus, troll, basilisk, harpy, centaur, griffin, gargoyle, chimera, Gorgon, Medusa, Minotaur, Phoenix, Cerberus, Argus, Cyclops, Pluto, Sphinx, Orthos, Python, Pan, roc, demon, orc, satyr, hellhound, alien, extraterrestrial, little green man, man-eater, Godzilla, the Blob, B-movie monster (Roger Corman Creation).

2. giant colossus, behemoth, Gargantua, Goliath, titan, leviathan, mammoth, Brobdingnagian.

ANT.: 2. dwarf, midget, runt, baby

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun 1. A person or animal that is abnormally formed: freak, monstrosity. See USUAL. 2. One that is extraordinarily large and powerful: behemoth, giant, Goliath, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, titan. Slang: whopper. See BEINGS, BIG. 3. A perversely bad, cruel, or wicked person: archfiend, beast, devil, fiend, ghoul, ogre, tiger, vampire. See KIND. II adjective Of extraordinary size and power: behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyan-esque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast. Informal: walloping. Slang: whopping. See BIG.