craptacular

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adjective

Spectacularly awful; so poor in quality as to become a spectacle.

“The movie was so craptacular that it generated legions of ironic fans who watched it over and over solely to mock it mercilessly.”

UncommonScrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivecraptacular (comparative more craptacular, superlative most craptacular)

comparative more craptacular · superlative most craptacular

  1. USslangvulgarSpectacularly awful; so poor in quality as to become a spectacle.

    The movie was so craptacular that it generated legions of ironic fans who watched it over and over solely to mock it mercilessly.

    3 more examples

    The craptacular Cirrus Logic chipset is nailed to the PCB. Luckily, adding a soundcard resolves this issue.

    2000 November, Scott Tarr, “Thumpin' Thunderbirds”, in Maximum PC, volume 5, number 11, page 80

    Homer has been known to sit on his couch excitedly clutching a pennant reading MID-SEASON, as he waits to drink in such craptacular Fox-TV mid-season fare as America's Funniest Tornadoes, All in the Family 1999 and Admiral Baby.

    2004, Chris Turner, Planet Simpson, →ISBN, page 82

    He'd signed a contract when he was accepted to the university giving ownership of all his ideas to the school forever, in exchange for the promise of someday adding “P.h.D.” to his name. It hadn't seemed like a good idea at the time, but the alternative was the awesomely craptacular job market, and so he'd signed it.

    2010, Cory Doctorow, For the Win, →ISBN, page 127

    Synonyms: crapperific, craptabulous, craptastic, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

  1. Old Dutchkrappen
  2. Old Frenchcrappe
  3. Middle Frenchcrape
  4. Middle Englishcrappe
  5. Englishcrap
  6. Englishcraptacular

From crap + -tacular.

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