- a nonhuman creature so ugly or monstrous as to frighten people.
- any creature grotesquely deviating from the normal shape, behavior, or character.
- a person who provokes or elicits horror by wickedness, cruelty, etc.
- any animal or thing huge in size.
- a legendary animal combining features of animal and human form or having the forms of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx.
- Biology.
- an animal or plant of abnormal form or structure, as from marked malformation or the absence of certain parts or organs.
- a grossly anomalous fetus or infant, especially one that is not viable.
- anything unnatural or monstrous.
- huge; enormous; monstrous: a monster tree.
- an imaginary beast, such as a centaur, usually made up of various animal or human parts
- a person, animal, or plant with a marked structural deformity
- a cruel, wicked, or inhuman person
- a very large person, animal, or thing
- (as modifier)
- to criticize (a person or group) severely
- to use intimidating tactics against (an opponent)
