Meaning & use
promethean
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Boldly creative, innovative, or defiant of accepted limits, especially in a way that involves great risk.
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The scientist's promethean ambition to create artificial life alarmed her colleagues.
Building the first skyscraper was seen as a promethean feat of engineering.
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Promethean comes from Prometheus, the Greek Titan who stole fire from the gods; the word evokes both brilliant creativity and the danger of overreaching.
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