Promethean

English

Etymology

From Prometheus a Greek demigod and the son of the Titan Iapetus. Prometheus created man from clay and gifted him with fire, for which he was punished by Zeus who chained Prometheus to a rock in the Caucasus where a vulture came and daily fed on his liver. Prometheus means "forethought" in Greek, from pro- "before" + mathein "to learn."

Adjective

Promethean (comparative more Promethean, superlative most Promethean)

1. Of or pertaining to Prometheus.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, Internal Combustion^[1]:

     More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

2. Daringly original; boldly inventive or creative.
3. Of enormous size or strength; extraordinarily strong.
4. (of a Romantic literary hero) Rebelling (or being a rebel) against a larger order; defying traditional moral categories; persecuted but dauntless.

Translations

of or pertaining to Prometheus

• Dutch: prometheïsch (nl)

daringly original; boldly inventive or creative

• Dutch: prometheïsch (nl)

of enormous size or strength; very strong

• Dutch: prometheïsch (nl)

of a Romantic literary hero

• Dutch: prometheïsch (nl)

Noun

Promethean (plural Prometheans)

1. one who acts in a Promethean manner

Anagrams

• heptameron