English

Adjective

cromulent ‎(comparative more cromulent, superlative most cromulent)

1. (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
   • 1996 February 18, Matt Groening et al., “Lisa the Iconoclast”, in The Simpsons, season 7, episode 16:

     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.

   • 2005 August 27, MC Frontalot (music), “Nerdcore Rising”, in Nerdcore Rising:

     We consider the possibleness of this not overstated.
     And I know that "possibleness" is not a cromulent word;
     every syllable injected is intended to be the one you heard
     (an absurd juxtaposition of mission and goal).

   • 2006 April 10, “Obituaries and In Memoriams: Benjamin Sidney Linton”, in Charlotte Observer:

     He had a boundless passion for music and entertained many with his beautiful voice and perfectly cromulent sense of humor.

   • 2007 October 26, Polansky, Alan M., Observed Confidence Levels, Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall, ISBN 9781584888024, OL 12313827M, page 216:

     There are certainly other cromulent techniques which may perform well for certain models and assumptions.

   • 2008, Karp, David A., Windows Vista Annoyances, Sebastopol: O'Reilly, ISBN 9780596527624, OL 10781059M, page 505:

     Of course, you may encounter a new program that doesn't work reliably with UNC paths, and this is a perfectly cromulent workaround.

   • 2009 May 15, O'Sullivan, Bryan; Stewart, Don; Goerzen, John, Real World Haskell, Sebastopol: O'Reilly, ISBN 9780596514983, OL 22647856M, page 86:

     How well does this function work? For positive integers, it's perfectly cromulent.

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See also

• embiggen