X-Filesy

adjective

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the paranormal investigation science fiction television series The X-Files.

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Meanings

adjectiveX-Filesy (comparative more X-Filesy, superlative most X-Filesy)

comparative more X-Filesy · superlative most X-Filesy

  1. informalOf, pertaining to, or characteristic of the paranormal investigation science fiction television series The X-Files.

    Maybe Williams really was in the FBI — some secret X-Filesy part of it.

    2012, Becca Mills, Nolander, Recompense Press (2012), unnumbered page
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    That doesn't leave room for much X-Filesy speculation about the nature of the universe — yet that doesn't stop Carter from trying to inject some intellectual spookiness.

    1996, Television Guide, volume 44, unnumbered page

    Spooky posters on the walls of dragon sightings, werewolves in Hungary, and a black and white print of a dead sea monster in Canada. Back in the world of Wayne Phelps but nice and X-Filesy, if it came down to it.

    2012, Graham Johnson, Hack: Sex, Drugs, and Scandal from Inside the Tabloid Jungle, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN

Origin

From X-Files + -y.

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X-Filesy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/X-Filesy

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“X-Filesy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/X-Filesy. Accessed November 3, 2026.

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