monster

Other forms of monster

plural

monsters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about monster

What does monster mean?

monster means "an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in monster?

monster has 2 syllables: mon-ster. The stress falls on "mon". In IPA it is /ˈmɑnstɚ/.

What is another word for monster?

Close synonyms include giant, goliath, behemoth, colossus, freak. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is monster a common word?

monster is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.