cromulent
Syllables: crom·u·lent/ˈkɹɒmjʊlənt//ˈkɹɑmjʊlənt/
cromulent adjective: acceptable, satisfactory, or valid.
Adjective
cromulent (comparative more cromulent, superlative most cromulent)
- Acceptable, satisfactory, or valid.
- Mrs. Krabappel: "Embiggens"? I never heard that word before moving to Springfield.
Ms. Hoover: I don't know why; it's a perfectly cromulent word.
[…]
Principal Skinner: He's embiggened that role with his cromulent performance.1996 February 18, David X. Cohen, “Lisa the Iconoclast”, in The Simpsons, season 7, episode 16, production code 3F13 - Nerdcore could rise up, it could get elevated.
Oh, and wouldn’t all of those tough rappers hate it
if the nerdcore rose up and got elevated.
We consider the possibleness of this not overstated.
And I know that "possibleness" is not a cromulent word;
every syllable injected is intended to be the one...2005 August 27, MC Frontalot, “Nerdcore Rising”, in Nerdcore Rising
- Antonyms:
- anomalous
- Mrs. Krabappel: "Embiggens"? I never heard that word before moving to Springfield.
cromulent meaning in Tamil
cromulent in Tamil
- மெய் உருவப் பொய்
Examples of cromulent in a sentence
- He had a boundless passion for music and entertained many with his beautiful voice and perfectly cromulent sense of humor.2006 April 10, “Obituaries and in memoriams: Benjamin Sidney Linton”, in The Charlotte Observer:
- Of course, you may encounter a new program that doesn't work reliably with UNC paths, and this is a perfectly cromulent workaround.2008, David A. Karp, “Users and Security”, in John Osborn, Laurel R. T. Ruma, editors, Windows Vista Annoyances (Tips, Secrets and...
- There are certainly other cromulent techniques which may perform well for certain models and assumptions.2008, Alan M. Polansky, “Connections and Comparisons”, in Observed Confidence Levels: Theory and Application, Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman...
- For positive integers, it's perfectly cromulent: […]2009, Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Don Stewart, “Functional Programming”, in Mike Loukides, editor, Real World Haskell (Code You Can...
Antonyms of cromulent
Forms of cromulent
| comparative | more cromulent |
|---|---|
| superlative | most cromulent |
Origin of cromulent
A humorous, intentionally morphologically opaque neologism and nonce word coined by American television writer David X. Cohen for “Lisa the Iconoclast”, a 1996 episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons. The ending resembles corpulent, temulent and other Latinate adjectives (derived from -ulentus (“full of, abounding in”)).
Words formed from cromulent
Questions about cromulent
- What does cromulent mean?
- Cromulent means acceptable, satisfactory, or valid.
- What is cromulent in Tamil?
- Cromulent in Tamil is மெய் உருவப் பொய். See Cromulent meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use cromulent in a sentence?
- He had a boundless passion for music and entertained many with his beautiful voice and perfectly cromulent sense of humor.
- What part of speech is cromulent?
- Cromulent is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce cromulent?
- Cromulent is pronounced /ˈkɹɒmjʊlənt/ (UK).
Words near cromulent in the dictionary
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