monster

n

1. centaur, chimera, dragon, cockatrice, basilisk, gargoyle; griffin, hippocapus, hircocer-vus, hippogriff, manticore, mermaid, merman, Loch Ness monster, Chiefly Brit. Inf.Nessie, roc, satyr, sea serpent, sea monster, unicorn, wivern, Arabian Myth. afreet or afrit; Gorgon, Harpy, Hydra, Kraken, Leviathan, Minotaur, Phoenix, Sagittary, Sphinx.

2. monstrosity, miscreation, malformation, abortion, deformity, mutant, freak, freak of nature, tera-togeny, two-headed calf, Biol. teratism; ogre, ogress, nightmare, terror, horror, incubus, succubus, vampire, Dracula or Count Dracula, bloodsucker; ghoul, cannibal, maneater, anthropophagite; werewolf, ape-man, Godzilla, Frankenstein or Frankenstein's monster; ghost, phantom, spectre, apparition, wraith, spirit, shade, Irish Folklore. banshee.

3. deviate, deviant, deviator, deviation, aberration, anomaly, abnormality, abnormity; oddity, peculiarity, curiosity, curio, rarity, nonesuch, funny or strange thing, queer or peculiar thing; wonder, marvel, phenomenon, miracle, prodigy; spectacle, spectacular, sight, eyeopener, eyesore, Sl. mind-boggier, Sl. mind-blower.

4. fiend, brute, demon, devil, mad dog; miscreant, villain, terrorist; killer, murderer, slayer, cutthroat, man-killer, man-slayer, mad-dog killer, barbarian, butcher, savage, mauler, ripper, slaughterer, Bluebeard, bloodspiller, bloodletter, bloodshedder; destroyer, exterminator, liquidator, annihilator, mass-killer, mass-murderer, mass-slayer.

5. giant, behemoth, enormity, colossus, titan; Al-cides, Anteus, Briareus, Brobdingnagian, Paul Bun-yan, Gargantua, Gog and Magog, Goliath, Hercules, Polyphemus; ape, gorilla, elephant, mammoth, mastodon, jumbo, dinosaur, hippopotamus, Inf. hippo, whale.

adj

6. huge, enormous, gigantic. See monstrous{def.3).