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cromulent.

Acceptable, satisfactory, or valid.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈkɹɒmjʊlənt/Received-Pronunciation/-jə-/Received-Pronunciation/ˈkɹɑmjʊlənt/General-American/-jə-/General-American
  1. Acceptable, satisfactory, or valid.

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Where this word comes from

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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