moreauvian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Playing God, particularly in attempting to blur the distinction between humans and animals.
Example Sentences
- "The novel's most Frankensteinian or Moreauvian project is again an exercise in 'man-making', the engineering of a new strain of hominid, the Crakers."
- "While many scientists think human cloning is possible and inevitable, others think it is likely that human clones already exist, perhaps in hideous forms where they are studied on a Moreauvian island."
- "There were attractions based on the works of H.G. Wells - a laboratory where you could assemble your own Moreauvian pet, a simulator that let you grow to fifty-feet tall or five-centimeters short"
Etymology
From Moreau + -v- + -ian, in reference to the 1896 H.G. Wells novel The Island of Doctor Moreau and its title character, a mad scientist attempting to turn animals into humans.
Inflected Forms
more Moreauvian (comparative)
most Moreauvian (superlative)
Dr. Moreauvian (alternative)