Promethean

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to Prometheus.
• Daringly original; boldly inventive or creative.
• Of enormous size or strength; extraordinarily strong.
• Rebelling (or being a rebel) against a larger order; defying traditional moral categories; persecuted but dauntless.

Noun

• One who acts in a Promethean manner.
• A glass tube containing sulfuric acid and an inflammable mixture.
• A kind of lucifer match.

Origin

• From Prometheus (a demigod in Greek mythology who created mortals from clay and gave them fire, for which he was punished by Zeus), from Ancient Greek Προμηθεύς, from προμηθής, from προ- + μανθάνω (from Proto-Indo-European *mn̥(s)-dʰh₁-, from *men- + *dʰeh₁-, thus "to put one's mind").