mad scientist
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.10 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
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.
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "The Nutty Professor franchise explores the light comedic potential of a mad scientist."
- "Dr Strangelove explores the darker comedic potential of a mad scientist."
- "Her new novel involves a mad scientist, but there's more to it than just bubbling flasks and lightning bolts."
- "The Lagadan projectors [of Jonathan Swift's 1726 satire Gulliver's Travels] were both ridiculous and destructive, but in the middle of the nineteenth century the mad scientist line splits in two, with the ridiculous branch culminating in the Jerry Lewis ‘nutty professor’ comic version, and the other leading in a more tragic direction. Even in ‘alchemist’ tales like the Faustus story, the comic potential was there — Faustus on the stage was a great practical joker — but in darker sagas like Frankenstein this vein is not exploited."
- "The mad scientists at Acme Labs have done it again! [said either approvingly or disparagingly]"
- "Raffineaque, the eccentric, the "mad scientist," so called, yet one whose work in these later days has been proved to be of true worth, was for a time at the community."