Definition of Monster

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Monster

Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel.

Specifically , an animal or plant departing greatly from the usual type, as by having too many limbs.

Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.

Monstrous in size.

To make monstrous.

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Monster Quotations

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mohandas Gandhi

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
Bette Davis

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Charlie Chaplin

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I can see every monster as they come in.
Truman Capote

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
Michel de Montaigne

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.
Shia LaBeouf

Monster Translations

monster in Afrikaans is monster
monster in Dutch is rotbeest, mormel
monster in French is monstre, barbare
monster in Italian is mostro, mostro
monster in Latin is monstrum
monster in Spanish is monstruo
monster in Swedish is odjur, vidunder

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