Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or resembling tentacles
Examples
“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.”
“tentacular," which - assuming you like either octopi or circuses - is the opposite of "craptacular.”
“Here, Mr. Saviano attacks the legitimacy of the Camorra's tentacular business empire, which reposes largely on the two Cs: cocaine and cement.”
“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.”
“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.”
The Huffington Post: AJ Rossmiller: Brilliant New Book About Gender and 2008 Election
“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
“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.”
“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.”
“The restrictions, the ignorance, the exclusionary mind-set, and capricious control of a tentacular regime over even the smallest, most inconsequential details were all proof that “worse” was always a possibility.”
“What do you think it was before resurgance of the cthulhoid tentacular stuff?”
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