Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a tentacle, in any sense; of the nature, structure, function, or appearance of a tentacle; adapted or used as a tactile organ; tentaculiform: as, tentacular character, movements, or formation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or pertaining to,
tentacles . - adjective Resembling a
tentacle ortentacles .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or resembling tentacles
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Examples
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It features an essay on the "tentacular" and quantum vampires by China Mieville, poems by Michel Houellebecq, and photos of dead monkeys by Thomas Ligotti.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009
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"tentacular," which - assuming you like either octopi or circuses - is the opposite of "craptacular."
Input, Output frankwu 2007
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Quote from the story: It was red and dripping; an immensity of pulsing, moving jelly; a scarlet blob with myriad tentacular trunks that waved and waved.
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Clinton's arc provides the analytical foundation, but it also frames the related tentacular outgrowths in politics, society, and the press: The comediennes who so memorably capitalized on the election.
AJ Rossmiller: Brilliant New Book About Gender and 2008 Election AJ Rossmiller 2010
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The first ride I don't take is the Astro Orbiter, which reminds me of the Airplanes or the Octopus, or whatever you call that tentacular machine with many airplanes rotating around a central hub and moving up and down.
Mickey Mouse, A-L-O-N-E Paolo Giordano 2011
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Her tentacular contempt for Shakespeare and Beethoven and Karl Marx and facial hair and government and “subnormal” children and the poor and the Baby Jesus and the U.N. and homosexuals and “simpering” social workers and French Impressionism and a thousand other things the flesh is heir to: experience?
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These are all things to which we have become accustomed as we watch a new era of instability rock the region, leading to basic rights being, "... profoundly threatened by the presence of tentacular governments that have erased the boundaries between government, party and state," as stated by former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias.
Joel D. Hirst: "Revolutionary Brotherhood" -- Nicaragua's 21st Century Socialism Joel D. Hirst 2010
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Clinton's arc provides the analytical foundation, but it also frames the related tentacular outgrowths in politics, society, and the press: The comediennes who so memorably capitalized on the election.
AJ Rossmiller: Brilliant New Book About Gender and 2008 Election AJ Rossmiller 2010
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Here, Mr. Saviano attacks the legitimacy of the Camorra's tentacular business empire, which reposes largely on the two Cs: cocaine and cement.
Saviano's Hell on Earth Tobias Grey 2011
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Her tentacular contempt for Shakespeare and Beethoven and Karl Marx and facial hair and government and “subnormal” children and the poor and the Baby Jesus and the U.N. and homosexuals and “simpering” social workers and French Impressionism and a thousand other things the flesh is heir to: experience?
apparently GQ wrote me a birthday present. . . « paper fruit 2009
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