Wonder vs Monster - What's the difference?
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Something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel.
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Someone very talented at something, a genius.
The sense or emotion which can be inspired by something curious or unknown; surprise; astonishment.
* (Plato), Theætetus (section 155d)
* Bible, (w) iii. 10
* 1781 , (Samuel Johnson), The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
(UK, informal) A mental pondering, a thought.
* 1934 , Katharine Tynan, The house of dreams
To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel.
* (Jonathan Swift), (w, Gulliver's Travels)
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To ponder; to feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain expectation; to query in the mind.
* (William Shakespeare)
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. }}
Wonder is a related term of monster.
As nouns the difference between wonder and monster
is that wonder is one of the while monster is pattern; that from which a copy is made.wonder
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Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}
- Socrates: I see, my dear Theaetetus, that Theodorus had a true insight into your nature when he said that you were a philosopher, for wonder' is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in ' wonder . He was not a bad genealogist who said that Iris (the messenger of heaven) is the child of Thaumas (wonder).
- They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
- All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.
- Miss Paynter had a little wonder as to whether the man, as she called Mr. Lacy in her own mind, had ever been admitted to this room. She thought not.
Derived terms
* bewonder * boy wonder * girl wonder * gutless wonder * little wonder * nine day wonder * no wonder * one hit wonder * * small wonder * Wonder Woman * wonderberry * wonderboy * wonderbra * wonderchild * wonderdrug * wonderful * wonderland * wonderment * wondrous, wonderous * wonderworker * work wondersVerb
(en verb)- I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals.
- We cease to wonder at what we understand.
- I wonder , in my soul, / What you would ask me, that I should deny.
Derived terms
* wondererStatistics
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* 1000 English basic words ----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.
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- 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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