Usually means: Creation turns monstrous; creator regrets.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. Frankenstein: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Frankenstein: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Frankenstein: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Frankenstein: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Frankenstein: Vocabulary.com
  6. Frankenstein, frankenstein: Wordnik
  7. Frankenstein, frankenstein: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Frankenstein, frankenstein: Wiktionary
  9. Frankenstein: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Frankenstein: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Frankenstein: Dictionary.com
  12. Frankenstein: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Frankenstein (DC Comics), Frankenstein (Death Race), Frankenstein (Dell Comics), Frankenstein (Edgar Winter Group), Frankenstein (Hammer film series), Frankenstein (Prize Comics), Frankenstein (TV miniseries), Frankenstein (US TV miniseries), Frankenstein (book), Frankenstein (comics), Frankenstein (disambiguation), Frankenstein (film), Frankenstein (instrumental), Frankenstein (miniseries), Frankenstein (rapper), Frankenstein (song), Frankenstein (video game), Frankenstein: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Frankenstein: Rhymezone
  15. frankenstein: Free Dictionary
  16. frankenstein: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Frankenstein: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. Frankenstein: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. Frankenstein: Merriam-Webster.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Frankenstein: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. frankenstein: A Word A Day
  2. Frankenstein: Idioms
  3. Frankenstein: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. frankenstein, Frankenstein: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Frankenstein, The Frankenstein: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See frankensteinian as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Frankenstein)

noun:  Various small towns in Germany.
noun:  (historical) A former name of Ząbkowice Śląskie, a town in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
noun:  (countable) A surname from German.
noun:  (fiction) Victor Frankenstein, a fictional character and the main protagonist and title character in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
noun:  (fiction, sometimes proscribed) The unnamed monster created by Victor Frankenstein: a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus as the main antagonist.
noun:  (sometimes proscribed) A monster composed of body parts from various corpses attached and brought back to life by a mad scientist, typically strong, unable to speak clearly, and misunderstood.
noun:  Synonym of mad scientist
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To combine two or more similar elements into a consistent entity, or a cohesive idea.
noun:  (fitness) A stretch in which one walks forward with their arms extended while kicking their legs forward to touch their hands.
verb:  (fitness) To perform the frankenstein stretch.
noun:  Alternative form of Frankenstein [Various small towns in Germany.]
verb:  Alternative spelling of Frankenstein [(transitive, colloquial) To combine two or more similar elements into a consistent entity, or a cohesive idea.]

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