Monster means a lot of things. Did any of you happen to read Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides? There's a scene in that book where the protagonist, having gone home after seeing the doctor, looked up the doctor's diagnosis (hermaphrodite) in a dictionary, and then after describing what it is, the dictionary has a note that says: see also monster .
Yea that had nothing to do with this, just reminds me of it. Uhm, anyway, how a monster is defined in an online dictionary:
Yea that had nothing to do with this, just reminds me of it. Uhm, anyway, how a monster is defined in an online dictionary:
Quote:mon•ster (ˈmɒn stər)god would fit 2. if god is a person. but it's just a figment of our imagination. plenty of god's followers would easily fit into this definition though.
n.
1. any animal or human grotesquely deviating from the normal shape, behavior, or character.
2. a person who excites horror by wickedness, cruelty, etc.
3. any creature so ugly or monstrous as to frighten people.
4. any animal or thing huge in size.
5. a legendary creature having a body with both human and animal features, or the features of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx.
6. a markedly malformed animal or plant.
7. a grossly anomalous fetus or infant, esp. one that is not viable.
adj.
8. huge; monstrous.
