Monster vs. Demon — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Monster and Demon
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Monster
A large, ugly, and frightening imaginary creature
A monster with the head of a hyena and hindquarters of a wolf
A world of fable, inhabited by other-worldly monsters
Demon
An evil supernatural spirit.
Monster
A thing of extraordinary or daunting size
This is a monster of a book, almost 500 pages
A monster 36lb carp
Demon
A demon is a supernatural being, typically associated with evil, prevalent historically in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology, and folklore; as well as in media such as comics, video games, movies, anime, and television series. In Ancient Near Eastern religions and in the Abrahamic traditions, including ancient and medieval Christian demonology, a demon is considered a harmful spiritual entity which may cause demonic possession, calling for an exorcism.
Monster
A congenitally malformed or mutant animal or plant.
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Demon
An evil supernatural being; a devil.
Monster
Criticize or reprimand severely
My mum used to monster me for coming home so late
Demon
A persistently tormenting person, force, or passion
The demon of drug addiction.
Monster
An imaginary or legendary creature, such as a centaur or Harpy, that combines parts from various animal or human forms.
Demon
One who is extremely zealous, skillful, or diligent
Worked away like a demon.
A real demon at math.
Monster
A creature having a strange or frightening appearance.
Demon
Variant of daimon.
Monster
(Archaic) An organism that has structural defects or deformities.
Demon
An evil spirit resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
Monster
(Informal) A very large animal, plant, or object.
Demon
A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
Monster
One who inspires horror or disgust
A monster of selfishness.
Demon
A very wicked or malevolent person; also in weakened sense a mischievous person, especially a child.
Monster
(Informal) Extremely large; monstrous
A monster hit at the box office.
Ate a monster steak.
Demon
A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
The demon of stupidity haunts me whenever I open my mouth.
Monster
A terrifying and dangerous creature. Category:en:Horror
Demon
(in plural) A person's fears or anxieties.
Monster
A bizarre or whimsical creature.
The children decided Grover was a cuddly monster.
Demon
A neutral supernatural spirit.
Monster
A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
Get away from those children, you meatheaded monster!
Demon
A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
Monster
A severely deformed person.
Demon
(Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
Monster
(figuratively) A badly behaved child, a brat.
Sit still, you little monster!
Demon
A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.
Monster
(informal) Something unusually large.
Have you seen those powerlifters on TV? They're monsters.
Demon
A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.
Monster
(informal) A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
That dude playing guitar is a monster.
Demon
Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
He’s a demon at the card tables.
Monster
(gaming) A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games.
Demon
(card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.
Monster
(informal) Very large; worthy of a monster.
He has a monster appetite.
Demon
Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
Monster
(informal) Great; very good; excellent.
Demon
A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
The demon kind is of an intermediate nature between the divine and the human.
Monster
(transitive) To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
Demon
One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates.
Monster
(intransitive) To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
Demon
An evil spirit; a devil.
That same demon that hath gulled thee thus.
Monster
To harass.
Demon
One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief
Monster
To play (a series of) non-player characters as directed, without having the responsibility of organising the game itself; generally not limited to playing literal monsters or hostile combatants.
Are you monstering that event?
Demon
A cruel wicked and inhuman person
Monster
Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel.
A monster or marvel.
Demon
Someone extremely diligent or skillful;
He worked like a demon to finish the job on time
She's a demon at math
Monster
Specifically , an animal or plant departing greatly from the usual type, as by having too many limbs.
Monster
Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.
Monster
Monstrous in size.
Monster
Enormous or very powerful.
Monster
To make monstrous.
Monster
An imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts
Monster
Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
Monster
A person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
Monster
A cruel wicked and inhuman person
Monster
(medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus
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