cromulent

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɹɒmjʊlənt/|/-jə-/    美 /ˈkɹɑmjʊlənt/|/-jə-/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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.

词形变化

more cromulent comparative most cromulent superlative

词源

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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