Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

katamari

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.92 in modern English

Syllables: kata-mari
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something which rolls up other objects, growing increasingly large.

Example Sentences

"... a lawyer from Washington says he met Obama on Mars after listening to David Wilcock discuss jump rooms on UFOs, somewhere back behind all the extra details that have been tacked on at every point in this chain like a katamari"
"Also, like a katamari, she tended to destroy things in her path. I would miss her. Hopefully marriage wouldn't change her too much."
"It's like a Katamari effect. It would take only the slightest hint of a revolution to roll it all up."
"Sunk costs snowball, like a katamari. The resources you have already spent make it less likely you will quit, which makes it more likely you will accumulate additional sunk costs, which makes it again less likely you will quit[…]"

Etymology

From Japanese 固(かた)まり (katamari, “clump”), popularized by the 2004 video game Katamari Damacy and its sequels, in which players have to roll everyday objects into huge balls.

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Inflected Forms

katamaris (plural)

Phrases

snowball effect

Frequently Paired Words

snowball snowball effect

Questions

What does katamari mean?: Something which rolls up other objects, growing increasingly large.
Where does katamari come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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