English

Adjective

Promethean ‎(comparative more Promethean, superlative most Promethean)

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

     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

Noun

Promethean ‎(plural Prometheans)

1. one who acts in a Promethean manner

Anagrams

• heptameron