pocket monster

Trainable digital beast

Pocket monster is a creature from the Pokémon media franchise—video games, trading cards, and animated series—that players capture, train, and battle.

The name comes from the Japanese portmanteau Pokémon (pocket monster), referring to creatures small enough to carry in portable devices.

Outside the franchise, pocket monster occasionally describes any small, collectible creature in similar games: The new game features over a hundred pocket monsters to catch.

Related

Skylanders · Pikachu · avatar · Nintendo · evolution · Game Boy · trading cards · video game · catch · ball throw · trainer · battle · level up · shiny · legendary bird

Opposites
size/portability

pocket monsterkaiju

Japanese giant monster

giant monster · Godzilla · titan · colossus · leviathan

ontological status

pocket monsterwild animal

Undomesticated creature

fauna · wildlife · pet

domestication/tameness

pocket monsterwild beast

Undomesticated dangerous animal

apex predator · man-eater

Family

pocket, monster, pockets, pocketed, pocketing, monsters, monstrous, monstrosity, monstrosities

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G