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Monster [r]: A dangerous creature, usually fictional and often ugly and menacing, who often appears in literature and mythology and is associated with evil and wrongdoing, and is often a freak of nature or unusual in a hideous way. In Greek mythology, an example of a monster was the Minotaur which was part beast, and who ate humans.