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cromulent

adjective /ˈkɹɒmjʊlənt/

  1. Acceptable, satisfactory, or valid.

    Ms. Hoover: I don't know why; it's a perfectly cromulent word. […] Principal Skinner: He's embiggened that role with his cromulent performance.

    Mrs. Krabappel: "Embiggens"? I never heard that word before moving to Springfield.

Where it 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”)).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry cromulent (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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