Frankenstein
- 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.
Origin of Frankenstein
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Contemporary Examples of frankenstein
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The hybrid alliance is something of a Frankenstein monster where every arm imagines itself the brain.
When I think of Frankenstein, I have these visions of Robert De Niro in awful makeup.
He wrote the screenplay in collaboration with me and he plays Dr. Frankenstein.
You ever think how Dr. Frankenstein thought when Frankenstein ripped his first person in half?
Historical Examples of frankenstein
"Upon my word it seems to you what the Monster was to Frankenstein," said he.
The Opal SerpentFergus Hume
That Frankenstein is apt at all times to wild, primitive cruelty.
The Better Germany in War TimeHarold Picton
In calling upon this agency he acts the part of Frankenstein.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2John Tyndall
At last I perceived myself behind the logic of this Frankenstein.
Fantazius MallareBen Hecht
No, not as Mallare who had lain indifferent beside his Frankenstein.
Fantazius MallareBen Hecht
Frankenstein
- a person who creates something that brings about his ruin
- Also called: Frankenstein's monster a thing that destroys its creator
Word Origin for Frankenstein
Word Origin and History for frankenstein
Frankenstein
allusive use dates to 1838, from Baron Frankenstein (German, "free stone"), character in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel "Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus." Commonly used, mistakenly, as the proper name of the monster he created, and thus franken- extended 1990s as a prefix to mean "non-natural."