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Entry 6 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Monster

/(mŏn*stẽr)/ · Mon·ster · IPA /ˈmɑnstɚ/
01 n. Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel.
  1. 1.
    Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel.
    “A monster or marvel.” Chaucer.
  2. 2.
    Specifically , an animal or plant departing greatly from the usual type, as by having too many limbs.
  3. 3.
    Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.
02 a. Monstrous in size.
  1. 1.
    Monstrous in size.
  2. 2.
    Enormous or very powerful; as, he drove a monster Harley.[informal]
03 v. t. To make monstrous.
  1. 1.
    To make monstrous.[Obs.]