MONSTERS Synonyms

• a ghostly appearing figure

• the appearance of a ghostlike figure

• something existing in perception only

• an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly

• a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

• a cruelly rapacious person

• an imaginary monster used to frighten children

• a cruelly rapacious person

• a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

• resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

• a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

• a living being

• a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

• an evil supernatural being

• a cruel wicked and inhuman person

• someone extremely diligent or skillful

• a cruel wicked and inhuman person

• an evil supernatural being

• a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)

• a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed

• someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction

• lose one's nerve

• someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection

• an evil spirit or ghost

• art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants

• distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous

• ludicrously odd

• intense and profound fear

• something that inspires horror; something horrible

• intense aversion

• tending to undergo or resulting from mutation

• (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration

• an animal that has undergone mutation

• a cruel wicked and inhuman person

• (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings

• a ghostly appearing figure

• something existing in perception only

• something apparently sensed but having no physical reality

• a mental representation of some haunting experience

• a ghostly appearing figure

• someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

• a mental representation of some haunting experience

• frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action

• an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

• a person who inspires fear or dread

• a very troublesome child

• the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)

• a cruel and oppressive dictator

• in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it

• any person who exercises power in a cruel way

• (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living