2. droning, chanting, drumming; singsong, canting; buzzing, whirring, humming. monotony,
n. 1. lack of variety, changelessness, tedium, tediousness, routine, fixed routine, rut, groove, fixed schedule; uniformity, sameness, selfsameness; lack of excitement, dullness, humdrum, deadness, flatness; wearisomeness, dreariness, stuffiness; boredom, ennui; iteration, reiteration, repetition, recurrence, redundancy, tautology.
2. droning, chanting, drumming; singsong, canting; buzzing, whirring, humming. monsoon, n. 1. typhoon, hurricane, cyclone, Philippines. baguio, Central America, cordanazo, Australia. willy-willy; tempest, storm, gale, blast, blow, big blow; tornado, twister, whirlwind, squall, williwaw, chinook; wind, heavy winds, levanter.
2. rainy season, rains.
monster, n. 1. centaur, chimera, dragon, cockatrice, basilisk, gargoyle; griffin, hippocapus, hircocer-vus, hippogriff, manticore, mermaid, merman, Loch Ness monster, Chiefly Brit. Inf. Nessie, roc, satyr, sea serpent, sea monster, unicorn, wivern, Arabian Myth. afreet or afrit; Gorgon, Harpy, Hydra, Kraken, Leviathan, Minotaur, Phoenix, Sagittary, Sphinx.
2. monstrosity, miscreation, malformation, abortion, deformity, mutant, freak, freak of nature, tera-togeny, two-headed calf, Biol, teratism; ogre, ogress, nightmare, terror, horror, incubus, succubus, vampire, Dracula or Count Dracula, bloodsucker; ghoul, cannibal, maneater, anthropophagite; werewolf, ape-man, Godzilla, Frankenstein or Frankenstein's monster; ghost, phantom, spectre, apparition, wraith, spirit, shade, Irish Folklore, banshee.
3. deviate, deviant, deviator, deviation, aberration, anomaly, abnormality, abnormity; oddity, peculiarity, curiosity, curio, rarity, nonesuch, funny or strange thing, queer or peculiar thing; wonder, marvel, phenomenon, miracle, prodigy; spectacle, spectacular, sight, eyeopener, eyesore, Sl. mind-boggier, Sl. mind-blower.
4. fiend, brute, demon, devil, mad dog; miscreant, villain, terrorist; killer, murderer, slayer, cutthroat, man-killer, man-slayer, mad-dog killer, barbarian, butcher, savage, mauler, ripper, slaughterer, Bluebeard, bloodspiller, bloodletter, bloodshedder; destroyer, exterminator, liquidator, annihilator, mass-killer, mass-murderer, mass-slayer.
5. giant, behemoth, enormity, colossus, titan; Al-cides, Anteus, Briareus, Brobdingnagian, Paul Bun-yan, Gargantua, Gog and Magog, Goliath, Hercules, Polyphemus; ape, gorilla, elephant, mammoth, mastodon, jumbo, dinosaur, hippopotamus, Inf. hippo, whale.
-adj. 6. huge, enormous, gigantic. See - monstrous (def. 3).
monstrosity, n. 1. monstrousness, freakishness, nightmarishness, horribleness; ghoulishness, fiendishness, brutishness, demoniac, devilishness; miscreancy, villainy; murderousness, barbarousness, barbarity, butchery, savageness, savagery, slaughterousness.
2. miscreation, malformation, abortion, deformity, mutant, freak, freak of nature, teratogeny, twoheaded calf, Biol, teratism; ogre, ogress, nightmare, horror, terror.
3. deviate, deviant, deviator, deviation, aberration, anomaly, abnormality, abnormity; spectacle, spectator, sight, eyeopener, eyesore, Sl. mind-boggier, Sl. mind-blower.
