Definition of: monster

(mon′stər) noun
1. A fabulous animal, compounded of various brute forms.
2. A being that is greatly malformed; anything hideous or abnormal in structure and appearance; a teratism.
3. One abhorred because of his unnatural or inhuman character.
4. A very large person, animal, or thing. See synonyms under PRODIGY.
—adjective Extraordinary or enormous in size or numbers; huge. [<OF monstre <L monstrum divine omen, monster <monere warn]