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Frankenstein
[ frang-kuhn-stahyn ]
noun
- a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
- Also called Frankenstein monster. the monster or destructive agency itself.
Frankenstein
/ ˈڰæŋɪˌٲɪ /
noun
- a person who creates something that brings about his ruin
- Also calledFrankenstein's monster a thing that destroys its creator
Notes
Derived Forms
- ˌˈٱԾ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ··ٱ·· [frang-k, uh, n-, stahy, -nee-, uh, n], adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of Frankenstein1
Word History and Origins
Origin of Frankenstein1
Example Sentences
The land surrounding Frankenstein’s castle is a joy to peruse, as spooky imagery is used to hint at something more mystical.
Then, at his busiest, with a wife and three children impatiently waiting at home, he wheedled Mel Brooks for a cameo in “Young Frankenstein.”
But that orange glitch in the Matrix, that reality-TV Frankenstein — he is too big of a stain, too much of a mistake to bear.
That’s why they feel that now is the time to urgently decide how we want to regulate work that might produce such little Frankenstein’s monsters.
In that world, Thomas argues, people only trust “their” evidence and “languish in a perversely post-modern Frankenstein world of no facts matter—unless they are mine.”
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