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Mad scientist
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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.; A stock character in fiction who embodies such an archetype.
"The Nutty Professor franchise explores the light comedic potential of a mad scientist."
- 2 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.; A real-life scientist who is asserted to embody such an archetype.
"The mad scientists at Acme Labs have done it again! [said either approvingly or disparagingly]"
- 3 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.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: a scientist who is insane, power-mad, or similarly deranged.
"In the 1890s, some of the locals viewed the chemical plant as a folly run by mad scientists and venal aristocrats."
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