monster (abnormal creature)
→
cruel
8 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | monster | |
| Meaning 1 | bizarre or whimsical creature | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal | Get away from those children, you meatheaded monster! |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | monstre | |
| Meaning 1 | individual whose morphology is abnormal, either by excess or defect of an organ, or by abnormal position of the limbs | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person who arouses fear by his cruelty, his perversion. | |
| Reference | CNRTL | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Galician | |
| Lexeme | monstro | |
| Meaning 1 | monster | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | very cruel person | |
| Reference | DDDDLG | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Polish | |
| Lexeme | potwór | |
| Meaning 1 | a person who stands out from others with a special ugliness | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | a person considered in their actions as particularly malicious or cruel, or even devoid of human feelings | Uważałem go za miłego człowieka, dlatego nie chce mi się wierzyć w stawiane mu zarzuty. Prasa zrobiła z niego potwora. (Agata Szczepaniak-Kamińska: Upadek, Gazeta Poznańska, 2005-10-21) I considered him a nice man, so I do not want to believe the charges brought against him. The press turned him into a monster. |
| Reference | WSJP | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Romanian | |
| Lexeme | monstru | |
| Meaning 1 | fantastic or real being whose conformation is out of the ordinary, frightening, terrifying, repulsive due to its proportions, ugly appearance, etc. | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | person with serious moral defects, especially cruelty | |
| Reference | MDA2 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | монстр | |
| Meaning 1 | monster | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | a person with some bad character traits, oddities in behavior, etc. | |
| Reference | BTS | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | чудовище (čudóvišče) | |
| Meaning 1 | monster | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | about a person of low, repulsive moral qualities | |
| Reference | BAS | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | monstruo | |
| Meaning 1 | being that presents anomalies or notable deviations with respect to its species. | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | very cruel and wicked person. | |
| Reference | DRAE | |
| Comment | ||