adj
Meaning 1
Acceptable, satisfactory, or valid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: humorous
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: anomalous
Standard Lemma guide
cromulent
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɒmjʊlənt/
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Received-Pronunciation: /-jə-/
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General-American: /ˈkɹɑmjʊlənt/
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General-American: /-jə-/
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History
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”)).
Across languages
Translations
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 還行 /还行 — fine, acceptable or correct
- Finnish: kurantti — fine, acceptable or correct