Cromulent

//ˈkɹɒmjʊlənt// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Acceptable, satisfactory, or valid. humorous

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Legitimate or valid (frequently used ironically) wordnet

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nonanomalousnonanomaloustickety-boo

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"'Cromulent' is a perfectly cromulent word."

Etymology

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”)).

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