Promethean

Origin

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."

Full definition of Promethean

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to Prometheus.
• 2006, w, Internal Combustion Chapter 2, 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.

Noun

1. one who acts in a Promethean manner

Anagrams

• heptameron