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(n)
A monstrous person, thing, or act.
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A very tall and large person.
(by extension) Any great and mighty monster.
A very evil person.
(theology) The chief devil; Satan.
An evil supernatural spirit.
(mythology) A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh.
(by extension) Any creature or thing of gigantic size.
(countable) An organism exhibiting marked such deviation from the norm, seeming to be the result of sportive design; a freak of nature.
(figuratively) Any large person or thing; someone or something that is abnormally large or powerful.
A stupid person; a fool.
(countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
(countable) An abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit.
(colloquial) A silly person.
Alternative form of D.U.M.B. (deep underground military base)
(offensive) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
(typically uncountable) Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.
(fiction) A character who has the role of being bad, especially antagonizing the hero; an antagonist who is also evil or malevolent.
Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
(adj)
Very large.
(informal, derogatory, especially) A person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.
(archaic) A fanciful or whimsical person.
A person very much liked or loved by someone, especially when both partners are young.
One who or that which kills.
A male child.
(chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) A man, generally a younger man.
That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
A menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories.
Alternative form of bogeyman. [A menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories.]
A general type.
An animal, especially a large or dangerous land vertebrate.
A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.
A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.
(mythology) A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to do so during a full moon.
Any destructive insect that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
The activity of taking part in a dance.
Alternative form of puree. [A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid or paste.]
A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.
(professional education) Initialism of Master of Social Work.
(Norse mythology) A colossal sea monster that attacks ships and sailors, often portrayed as a giant octopus or squid.
A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
(figurative) A thing which is monstrously great in size, strength, etc. (especially a ship); also, a person with great power or wealth.
(countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters.
(fantasy) A malevolent and grotesque diminutive humanoid, often associated with orcs or trolls.
(mythology) A demon said to feed on corpses.
A source of dread; resentment; or irritation.
A somewhat or partly monstrous creature.
(idiomatic, film, humorous) A horror film in which one or more monsters plays a prominent role.
(science fiction, derogatory) An extraterrestrial.
(rare) A small monster
A small or young monster.
All monsters, considered as a group.
(dialect) Alternative form of creature. [A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.]
(fantasy) An intelligent man-sized beast with varying characteristics.
(fantasy) A humanoid creature.
Pronunciation spelling of creature. [A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.]
(literal) A nocturnal animal.
A strange form, an alien creature.
A subgenre of erotic speculative fiction involving sexual encounters between humans and monstrous or fantastical creatures.
An animal that kills humans.
An animal that attacks and kills humans for food, such as certain tigers or sharks; any animal that consumes human flesh.
(by extension) Someone or something that is large, dangerous, and unpredictable.
A little beast.
(US, Maryland, Virginia, possibly dated) A woodchuck.
(fantasy) A monstrous creature resembling a bear with a beak.
(mythology, British) A legendary monstrous black dog, said to possess large teeth and claws, and (sometimes) to be capable of changing form.
Synonym of wereanimal.
(now literary) A snake, especially a large or dangerous one.
(fantasy fiction) A creature resembling a huge elephant.
(rare, informal) werecreature
A small terrestrial creature; including arthropods, gastropods, worms etc.
(rare) A shapeshifter that can change between human and some animal form, such as a werewolf or werebear.
A giant monster, such as a hypothetical late descendant of Gigantopithecus.
(fantasy) A gigantic lizard-like monster.
(fantasy, mythology) A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf.
(cryptozoology, often capitalized) A humanoid or apelike animal said to exist in the Himalayas.
(New England, mythology) A mythical monster resembling a mixture of a bear, panther, and lion, and having a fearsome screech.
(usually endearing, US, Australia) A creature, an animal.
(fantasy) A fictional monster that devours earthen and silicate materials and can move freely through earth.
(science fiction) A mammalian humanoid creature.
(US) A fierce imaginary animal, a bogeyman.
A person who eats meat.
A fictional man-eating predator that dwells in the dark.
A game animal.
A scorpion-like creature.
Alternative form of werecreature. [(rare) A shapeshifter that can change between human and some animal form, such as a werewolf or werebear.]
A man-eater; a cannibal.
(fantasy) Any animal having a single horn on its head; a unicorn.