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Frankenstein Definition

Frank·en·stein (fraŋ′kən stīn′)

noun

  1. the title character in a novel (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: he is a young medical student who creates a monster that destroys him
  2. popularly Frankenstein's monster
  3. any person destroyed by his or her own creation
  4. anything that becomes dangerous to its creator

Frankenstein Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • food: Boycott G.M. / frankenstein foods Soon shoppers may find ‘frankenstein ' animal foods in the supermarket.
Frankenstein Quotes

Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.

—Muggeridge, Malcolm

  So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankensteinömore, far more, will I achieve; treading the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

—Shelley, Mary Godwin