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cultish en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English cult Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English cultish From cult + -ish.

Meanings

  1. (derogatory) Resembling or characteristic of a cult.
    • As anyone who lived through those times will recall, a lot of pointless farting around was unleashed in the name of electronic music, particularly once the likes of Leer, Robert Rental, and Daniel Miller scored a degree of cultish fandom with their earliest releases, and provoked their own surge of imitators. 2021, Dave Thompson, I Feel Love, page 194:
    • a cultish movement

Forms

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more cultish Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most cultish Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

cultishly · cultishness

Synonyms

cultic · cultlike