0 any imaginary frightening creature, especially one that is large and strange:
a sea monster
prehistoric monsters
the Loch Ness monster
2 something that is very big, or too big:
You should have seen the onions he grew for the competition - they were monsters!
3 very big:
a monster housing development
4 to criticize someone severely or to treat someone very badly:
Andy Smith has been monstered by the media.
5 any imaginary frightening creature, esp. one that is large and strange
a monster shark
The Incredible Hulk is a character in a comic who turns from a scientist into a two-metre tall monster.
The monsters he encounters on his quest are not actual, but oversized creations of an imagination that threatens to slip from manly control.
Because monsters are always the constitutive outside of normativity, the scapegoats constructed of society's devouring anxieties, they can never safely be tucked away.
The dream of reason and its "transcendental ego" appeared to have joined with alltoo-human empirical egos to engender monsters on all sides.
In the process of instructing the world, they developed a political culture that nourishes both liberal dreams and illiberal monsters.
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