A hideous monster used to live there.
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Monster
//ˈmɒnstə(ɹ)//
Synonyms for "monster" (231 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (47)
Strong matches (69)
deformitydemondevildevil incarnatedinosaurdogdraculadragondrakeechidnaelephantelephantineenormousepicextensiveeyesorefee-faw-fumfiendfiend from hellfire eater
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fire-eaterfirebrandfrankensteinfreak of naturefrightfrightenerfurygalacticgargantuangargoyleghostghoulgiantgiantlikegoongorgongorillagriffingunselhaghardnoseharpyharridanhell raiserhell-raiserhellcathellhoundhellionhellkiteherculeanheroichippohippocampushippopotamushobgoblinholy terrorhomerichoodhoodlumhorrorhothead
Verb(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (115)
hotspurhugehydraimmeasurableimmenseincendiaryincubusinfinitejumbokillerking sizeking-sizelamialargeleviathanloch ness monstermad dogmadcapmafiosomammoth
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massivemassymastodonmedusamermaidmermanmessmightyminotaurmiscreationmissing linkmonstrositymonstrousmonumentalmountainousmuggermutantmutationnightmarenixieno beautyogreogressoutsizeovergrownpegasusphantomprodigiousprofoundpythonrapistrevenantrevolutionaryrocsalamandersatyrsavagescarebabescarecrowscarerscyllasea horsesea serpentshe-wolfsightsirensizablespaciousspectersphinxspitfirestupendoussuccubustalosteratismtermagantterrorterroristtigertigresstitanictoughtough guytoweringtremendoustrolltyphonugly customerugly ducklingunicornvampirevastviolentviragovixenvoluminouswallopingweightywerewolfwhalewild beastwindigowitchwolfwolf manwolf-manxiphopagusyoung turkzombie
Noun(4 words)
Verb(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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3 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesat location
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5 entriesrelated to
16 entriesTranslations
254 translations across 86 languages.
Afrikaans
4 entries- monster noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- monster noun (bizarre or whimsical creature)
- monster noun (anti-social person, especially a criminal)
- monster noun (something unusually large)
Albanian
1 entries- përbindësh noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- πέλωρ noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- πέλωρον noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- τέρας noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Arabic
3 entries- مسيخ noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- وحش noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- وَحْش noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Armenian
1 entries- հրեշ noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Asturian
1 entries- monstruu noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- canavar noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- div noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- nəhəng noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- əjdaha noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Bangi
1 entries- elima noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Basque
1 entries- munstro noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Belarusian
4 entries- мо́нстар noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- пачва́ра noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- страхо́цце noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- страхо́цьце noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Bengali
2 entries- দানব noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- দৈত্য noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Bulgarian
2 entries- изверг noun (anti-social person, especially a criminal)
- чудо́вище noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Burmese
2 entries- နတ်ဆိုး noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- ဧရာမသတ္တဝါကြီး noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Catalan
4 entries- monstruós adj (very large)
- dimoni noun (badly behaved child)
- monstre noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- monstre noun (bizarre or whimsical creature)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- دێو noun (bizarre or whimsical creature)
- لاور noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 妖怪 noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- 妖物 noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- 怪物 noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- 魔鬼 noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Czech
3 entries- nestvůra noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- potvora noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- příšera noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Danish
2 entries- monster noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- uhyre noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Dutch
4 entries- monsterachtig adj (very large)
- monstrueus adj (very large)
- gedrocht noun (bizarre or whimsical creature)
- monster noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Esperanto
1 entries- monstro noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Estonian
3 entries- koletis noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- monstrum noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- peletis noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Finnish
4 entries- hirveä adj (very large)
- valtava adj (very large)
- hirviö noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- hirviö noun (anti-social person, especially a criminal)
French
4 entries- monstrueux adj (very large)
- bête noun (a prodigy)
- monstre noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- monstre noun (a prodigy)
Galician
2 entries- monstro noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- monstro noun (anti-social person, especially a criminal)
Georgian
2 entries- მონსტრი noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- ურჩხული noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
German
2 entries- Monster noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- Ungeheuer noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Greek
4 entries- τέρας adj (very large)
- τέρας noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- τέρας noun (bizarre or whimsical creature)
- τέρας noun (anti-social person, especially a criminal)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- mons noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Hawaiian
2 entries- tutua noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- tutua noun (bizarre or whimsical creature)
Hebrew
1 entries- מִפְלֶצֶת noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Hindi
4 entries- दानव noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- देव noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- दैत्य noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- राक्षस noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Hungarian
1 entries- szörny noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Icelandic
2 entries- skrímsli noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- ófreskja noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Ido
1 entries- monstro noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Iranian Persian
4 entries- اُعْجوبِه noun (a prodigy)
- دیوْ noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- غول noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- هَیولا noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Irish
4 entries- ainmhí noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- ainmhí noun (anti-social person, especially a criminal)
- amhailt noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- arracht noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Italian
2 entries- mostro noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- mostro noun (anti-social person, especially a criminal)
Japanese
4 entries- モンスター noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- 化け物 noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- 怪物 noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- 怪異 noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Kazakh
2 entries- жалмауыз noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- құбыжық noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Khmer
4 entries- បារ noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- យក្ខ noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- វិរូបកាយ noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- វៃយរាពណ៍ noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Korean
3 entries- 괴물 noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- 도깨비 noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- 몬스터 noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- ажыдаар noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Lao
3 entries- ຜີສາດ noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- ຜີເຜດ noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- ຜີເສື້ອ noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Latgalian
1 entries- baisūņs noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Latin
3 entries- bēlua noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- bēlua noun (bizarre or whimsical creature)
- mōnstrum noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Latvian
4 entries- briesmonis noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- monstrs noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- nezvērs noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- šausmonis noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Lingala
1 entries- elima noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Lithuanian
4 entries- baisūnas noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- monstras noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- pabaisa noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- siaubūnas noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Macedonian
1 entries- чудовиште noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Malagasy
2 entries- sampona noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- sampona noun (bizarre or whimsical creature)
Malay
1 entries- raksasa noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Marathi
1 entries- राक्षस noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Mongolian
1 entries- мангас noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Māori
4 entries- kaurehe noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- nauhea noun (anti-social person, especially a criminal)
- nauwhea noun (anti-social person, especially a criminal)
- tuoro noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Norman
2 entries- divèrs noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- monstre noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- lawir noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- rawir noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- monster noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- uhyre noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- monster noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- uhyre noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Occitan
2 entries- monstre noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- mostre noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Old English
2 entries- fīfel noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- þyrs noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Pashto
3 entries- دېب noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- دېو noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- هيولا noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Ontia noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Polish
4 entries- monstrualny adj (very large)
- bachor noun (badly behaved child)
- bestia noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- bestyja noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Portuguese
1 entries- monstro noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Romanian
1 entries- monstru noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Russian
4 entries- чудо́вищный adj (very large)
- вундерки́нд noun (a prodigy)
- ге́ний noun (a prodigy)
- гигант noun (something unusually large)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- uile-bheist noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- nȅmān noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- čȕdovīšte noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- не̏ма̄н noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- чу̏довӣште noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Shor
1 entries- шебелдей noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Slovak
1 entries- príšera noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Slovene
1 entries- pošast noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Spanish
4 entries- fiera noun (a prodigy)
- monstruo noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- monstruo noun (a prodigy)
- vestiglo noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Swedish
3 entries- jätte adj (very large)
- monster noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- odjur noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Tagalog
1 entries- halimaw noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Tajik
4 entries- аждар noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- аждахо noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- аъҷуба noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- дев noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Thai
4 entries- ปิศาจ noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- ปีศาจ noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- สัตว์ประหลาด noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- อสุรกาย noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Turkish
4 entries- canavar noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- dev noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- gulyabani noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- öcü noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Turkmen
1 entries- gorkunç noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Ukrainian
4 entries- монстр noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- потво́ра noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- почва́ра noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- чу́дисько noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Urdu
1 entries- دیوْ noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Uyghur
1 entries- مەخلۇق noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Uzbek
1 entries- maxluq noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Vietnamese
1 entries- quái vật noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Welsh
2 entries- angenfilod noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
- anghenfil noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
White Hmong
1 entries- dab noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿאַרזעעניש noun (terrifying dangerous creature)
Sample sentences
47 total sentences available.
Rex was a monster of a dog.
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Even the most graceful and imposing existing buildings may now be so sadly diminished as to seem slightly ridiculous beside the monster.
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Then, with a final, terrible scream, the monster flung itself off the mountain to its death on the rocks below.
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