monster

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mon·ster / ˈmänstər/ • n. an imaginary creature that is typically large, ugly, and frightening. ∎  an inhumanly cruel or wicked person: he was an unfeeling, treacherous monster. ∎ often humorous a person, typically a child, who is rude or badly behaved: Christopher is only a year old, but already he is a little monster. ∎  a thing or animal that is excessively or dauntingly large: this is a monster of a book, almost 500 pages. ∎  a congenitally malformed or mutant animal or plant.• adj. inf. of an extraordinary and daunting size or extent: outfitted with a monster 120-mm gun.

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