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Star Trekkish en · ADJ

Etymology

From Star Trek + -ish.

Meanings

  1. Especially of style or technology: like that of the fictional world of the Star Trek media franchise.
    • "Not to get too Star Trekkish," Miriam said. "But I'm also an empath". 2008, John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor, Claws That Catch, page 271:
    • AT&T Microelectronics and Go Corp. envision future "personal communicators" that will include devices ranging from tablet computers with fax transceivers and wireless data transmission to a "Star Trekkish" communicator with a writing pad. 1992, InfoWorld, volume 14, number 29, page 31:
    • Originally developed in the 1950s, the square tomato, officially known by the Star Trekkish designation “Cultivar VF-145,” was designed solely with machines in mind. 2011, Rebecca Rupp, How Carrots Won the Trojan War, page 329:
    • When her predatory lovers die — first with crystal shards embedded in their skulls and then just vanishing in a sparkly Star Trekkish mass of bubbles — she believes that she is killing them with her deadly vagina. 1984, Florida Atlantic University, Science Fiction Research Association, Fantasy review, Volume 7, Issues 64-74, page 43
    • Biosphere 2, that very real quasi-scientific experiment in the Arizona desert in which seven men and women donned Star Trekkish jumpsuits and sealed themselves inside a domed ecocosm, is an eerie parallel to the Alternative 3 plot. 2004, Jonathan Vankin, Joh Whalen, The 80 Greatest Conspiracies Of All Time, page 137:

Forms

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more Star Trekkish Degree=Cmp lexicographic
Star Trek–ish alternative lexicographic
most Star Trekkish Degree=Sup lexicographic

Synonyms

Star Trekky