English Explanatory Dictionary

mad scientist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A bumbling or eccentric scientist working on questionable projects, or a villainous scientist bent on destruction; sometimes, a complex character in whom these archetypes seem to vie for supremacy.
  2. A stock character in fiction who embodies such an archetype.
  3. A real-life scientist who is asserted to embody such an archetype.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: a scientist who is insane, power-mad, or similarly deranged.

Word forms

mad scientist mad scientists

Synonyms

Doctor Frankenstein Dr. Frankenstein Dr Frankenstein Frankenstein mad professor

Related words

Jekyll and Hyde
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