Frankenstein's monster
nounEtymology
In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (1818), Dr. Frankenstein assembled a monster from human corpses; it eventually escaped his control.
Definitions
A thing that is cobbled together from parts of other things.
- Like the English language, the eukaryote cell is a chimera, a Frankenstein's monster, assembled from bits and pieces of genetic information...
- He is like a Frankenstein's monster in reverse: everything that is pretty is combined together to produce a perfect androgyne.
A creation that overpowers or slips out of the control of its creator, often proceeding…
A creation that overpowers or slips out of the control of its creator, often proceeding to turn on its creator or harm others.
- They created a Frankenstein's monster which they did not imagine could grow out of their control.
- Somehow, the law does not always seem to serve those who created it, becoming at times a Frankenstein's monster of sorts.
The creature from Mary Shelley's novel.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Frankenstein's monster. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA