Meaning

(humorous) Acceptable, satisfactory, or valid..

Example Sentences

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.

Nerdcore could rise up, it could get elevated. Oh, and wouldn’t all of those tough rappers hate it if the nerdcore rose up and got elevated. 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).

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

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

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

How well does this function work? For positive integers, it's perfectly cromulent: […]

Word Forms

• more cromulent
• most cromulent

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When Should You Use Cromulent?

Use cromulent when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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