cringetastic
/kɹɪnd͡ʒˈtæstɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Teenage boys being teenage boys, you might have to lead him to this book – after all a book about sex and puberty is potentially cringetastic."
- "Last weekend, we previewed the cringetastic, canned part of what will be our last show in May."
- "It turns out that same squeamishness doesn’t apply to the word for male ejaculate that rhymes with “whiz.” Carrie says it not once, not twice, but a cringetastic four times — in a row — at the lunch table she shares with Charlotte, Miranda and Anthony (Mario Cantone) in Episode 4."
Etymology
From cringe + -tastic.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more cringetastic (comparative)
most cringetastic (superlative)