Spacely

adj, adv

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, relating to or pertaining to space, especially outer space; space-like.

    "This show wants to offend no one, and suffers great pains to avoid doing so, right down to the sexless leotards it crams everyone into, a spacely effort to promote a new brand of spacely political correctness."

Adverb
  1. 1
    spatially nonstandard, not-comparable

    "To realize a NTS one must have a spacely extended clock."

Example

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"This show wants to offend no one, and suffers great pains to avoid doing so, right down to the sexless leotards it crams everyone into, a spacely effort to promote a new brand of spacely political correctness."

Etymology

From space + -ly.

Related phrases

outer spacespace like

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