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lovecrafty

lovecrafty adjective: having a theme or style resembling the works of horror author H.P. Lovecraft, specifically characterised by cosmic horror, the insignificance of humanity, and themes of the unknown.

Adjective

lovecrafty (comparative more lovecrafty, superlative most lovecrafty)

  1. Having a theme or style resembling the works of horror author H.P. Lovecraft, specifically characterised by cosmic horror, the insignificance of humanity, and themes of the unknown.
    • […] these lovecrafty suckers are trying to turn you into a scrunched-up blood-drained pathetic crippled little cog in the death-machine of the human soul (& let's not have any theological quibbles about what we mean by "soul"!).1994, Hakim Bey, Immediatism, page 21

Forms of lovecrafty

comparativemore lovecrafty
superlativemost lovecrafty
alternative formLovecrafty

Origin of lovecrafty

From (H.P.) Lovecraft (horror author) + -y.

Questions about lovecrafty

What does lovecrafty mean?
Lovecrafty means having a theme or style resembling the works of horror author H.P. Lovecraft, specifically characterised by cosmic horror, the insignificance of humanity, and themes of the unknown.
What part of speech is lovecrafty?
Lovecrafty is an adjective.

Words near lovecrafty in the dictionary

  1. Lovecraft Country
  2. Lovecraftesque
  3. Lovecraftian
  4. Lovecraftiana
  5. Lovecraftians
  6. lovecrafty
  7. loved
  8. loved away
  9. loved it or lumped it
  10. loved on
  11. loved one

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lovecrafty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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