monster

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From Middle English and Middle French monstre, itself from Latin monstrum.

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Singular
monster

Plural
monsters

monster (plural monsters)

  1. A terrifying and dangerous, wild or fictional creature.
  2. A bizarre or whimsical creature.
    The children decided Grover was a cuddly monster.
  3. An extremely cruel or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
    Get away from those children, you meatheaded monster!
  4. A horribly deformed person
  5. (figuratively) A badly behaved child, terrible brat.
    Sit still, you little monster!
  6. (obsolete) A prodigy
  7. (bodybuilding): A bodybuilder of exceptionally large weight and proportions, typically weighing more than 135 kilos (300 lbs).

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monster (no comparative or superlative')

  1. Very large; worthy of a monster.
    He has a monster appetite.

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Infinitive
to monster

Third person singular
monsters

Simple past
monstered

Past participle
monstered

Present participle
monstering

to monster (third-person singular simple present monsters, present participle monstering, simple past and past participle monstered)

  1. (chiefly Australian) To harass
    • 2009 January 31, Leo Schlink, “Match looms as final for the ages”[1], Herald Sun:
      Andy Roddick has been monstered by both Federer and Nadal and suffered a 6-2 7-5 7-5 semi-final loss at the hands of the Swiss champion.

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cognate with English monster

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monster n. (plural monsters, diminutive monstertje, diminutive plural monstertjes)

  1. A monster, terrifying and dangerous creature.
  2. An extremely anti-social person, especially a criminal.

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cognate with English muster

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monster n. (plural monsters, diminutive monstertje, diminutive plural monstertjes)

  1. Small, representative quantity of a substance or material, as used for analysis or selection; sample
    De inspectie nam een monster van het water.
    The inspection took a sample of the water.
    We hebben monsters van alle soorten behang.
    We have samples of all types of wallpaper.

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