cromulent

adjective

crom·​u·​lent ˈkrä-myə-lənt 

informal + humorous

: acceptable, satisfactory

He's a perfectly cromulent quarterback. But … teams don't want cromulent quarterbacks. They want consummate ones.

—Ben Solak

The audio quality is best described as "perfectly cromulent"—it's unlikely to impress anyone, but it's plenty loud and reasonably listenable …

—Jim Salter

… the bodywash is actually a cromulent product that works pretty well.

—The Ipswich (Australia) Advertiser

Examples of cromulent in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Sid The Old Kid singlehandedly elevates this group above the few teams behind them, but his few helpers (Rakell and Rust) provide Pittsburgh with a cromulent first-line option – at least until GM Kyle Dubas holds a pre-deadline firesale. —James Mirtle, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025

Word History

Etymology

crom- (apparently an arbitrary formation) + -ulent

Note: The word was introduced in "Lisa the Iconoclast," an episode of the Fox animated television series The Simpsons that first aired on February 18, 1996. Coinage of the word has been attributed to the television writer David X. Cohen by Bill Oakley, one of the series' producers, in a commentary to the DVD release of the series.

First Known Use

1996, in the meaning defined above