Monster vs Dragon - What's the difference?
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A terrifying and dangerous, wild or fictional creature.
A bizarre or whimsical creature.
An extremely cruel or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
A horribly deformed person.
* 1837 , Medico-Chirurgical Review (page 465)
(figuratively) A badly behaved child, a brat.
(informal) Something unusually large.
(informal) A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
Very large; worthy of a monster.
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To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
* 1983 , Michael Slater, Dickens and Women ,
* 2005 , Diana Medlicott, The Unbearable Brutality of Being: Casual Cruelty in Prison and What This Tells Us About Who We Really Are'', Margaret Sönser Breen (editor), ''Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity ,
* 2011 , Stephen T. Asma, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears ,
To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
* 1968 , , Robert Lowell: A Collection of Critical Essays ,
* 2009 , Darius Rejali, Torture and Democracy ,
* 2010 , Joshua E. S. Phillips, None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture ,
(chiefly, Australia) To harass.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 31, author=Leo Schlink, title=Match looms as final for the ages, work=Herald Sun
, passage=Andy Roddick has been monstered by both Federer and Nadal and suffered a 6-2 7-5 7-5 semi-final loss at the hands of the Swiss champion. }}
A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.
# In Western mythology, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.
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# In Eastern mythology, a large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent.
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An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
# (obsolete) A very large snake; a python.
# Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco'', ''Physignathus or .
# A Komodo dragon.
(astronomy, with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco.
* 1605 , , Act I, Scene 2:
(pejorative) An unpleasant woman; a harridan.
(with definite article, often capitalized) The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
(figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous.
A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.
(military, historical) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.
A variety of carrier pigeon.
(Webster 1913)
Dragon is a synonym of monster.
In figuratively terms the difference between monster and dragon
is that monster is a badly behaved child, a brat while dragon is something very formidable or dangerous.As nouns the difference between monster and dragon
is that monster is a terrifying and dangerous, wild or fictional creature while dragon is a legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.As an adjective monster
is very large; worthy of a monster.As a verb monster
is to make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.As a proper noun Dragon is
the Devil.monster
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Alternative forms
* monstre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The children decided Grover was a cuddly monster .
- Get away from those children, you meatheaded monster !
- Deducting then these cases, we have a large proportion of imperfect foetuses, which belonged to twin conceptions, and in which, therefore, the circulation of the monster may have essentially depended on that of the sound child.
- Sit still, you little monster !
- Have you seen those powerlifters on TV? They're monsters .
- That dude playing guitar is a monster .
Derived terms
* Cookie Monster * corporate monster * monstrosity * Frankenstein's monster * the Loch Ness monster * monster truckAdjective
(-)- He has a monster appetite.
- (Alexander Pope)
Synonyms
* (very large) gigantic, monstrousVerb
(en verb)page 290,
- A Tale of Two Cities'' and ''Great Expectations feature four cases of women monstered by passion. Madame Defarge is ‘a tigress’, Mrs Joe a virago, Molly (Estella?s criminal mother) ‘a wild beast tamed’ and Miss Havisham a witch-like creature, a ghastly combination of waxwork and skeleton.
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- The community forgives: this is in deep contrast to offenders that emerge from prison and remain stigmatised and monstered , often unable to get work or housing.
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- Demonizing or monstering other groups has even become part of the cycle of American politics.
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- Animals in our world have been monstered' by human action as much as the free beasts of the pre-lapsarian state were ' monstered by the primal crime.
page 292,
- In 2002, American interrogators on the ground in Afghanistan developed a technique they called “monstering'.” The commander “instituted a new rule that a prisoner could be kept awake and in the booth for as long as an interrogator could last.” One “' monstering ” interrogator engaged in this for thirty hours.177
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- The interrogators asked members of the 377th Military Police Company to help them with monstering , and the MPs complied.
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Anagrams
* English refractory feminine rhymes ----dragon
English
(Dragon)Noun
(en noun)- But as every well-brought-up prince was expected to kill a dragon', and rescue a princess, the ' dragons grew fewer and fewer till it was often quite hard for a princess to find a dragon to be rescued from.
- These tapestries were magnificently figured with golden dragons'; and as the serpentine bodies gleamed and shimmered in the increasing radiance, each ' dragon , I thought, intertwined its glittering coils more closely with those of another.
- My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons taile, and my nativity was vnder Vrsa Maior .
- She’s a bit of a dragon .
- Napoleon already warned of the awakening of the Dragon .
- (Fairholt)