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1. An imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts
    
2. Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
   - giant, goliath, behemoth, colossus
    
3. A person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
   - freak, monstrosity, lusus naturae
    
4. A cruel wicked and inhuman person
   - fiend, devil, demon, ogre
    
5. (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable foetus
   - teras

Derived forms: monsters

See also: monstrous

Type of: anomaly, disagreeable person, fetus, foetus [Brit, Cdn], imaginary being, imaginary creature, mutant, mutation, sport, unpleasant person, unusual person, variation

Encyclopedia: Monster Monster, Netherlands