Promethean

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Greek Mythology Relating to or suggestive of Prometheus.
• adjective Boldly creative; defiantly original.
• noun One who is boldy creative or defiantly original in behavior or actions.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Of, pertaining to, or resembling Prometheus in Greek mythology, who showed men various arts, including the use of fire, and by the will of Zeus was chained to a rock and tortured by a vulture.
• [lowercase] In entomology, of or pertaining to the prometheus; being or known as the prometheus: as, a promethean silkworm.
• noun A small glass tube containing sulphuric acid, and surrounded by an inflammable mixture which it ignited on being pressed: formerly used for affording a ready light.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun An apparatus for automatic ignition.
• noun A kind of lucifer match.
• adjective Of or pertaining to Prometheus. See Prometheus.
• adjective Having a life-giving quality; inspiring.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Of or pertaining to Prometheus.
• adjective Daringly original; boldly inventive or creative.
• adjective Of enormous size or strength; extraordinarily strong.
• adjective Rebelling (or being a rebel) against a larger order; defying traditional moral categories; persecuted but dauntless.
• noun one who acts in a Promethean manner