tentacular
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9.9
- adjective
- /tɛnˈtækjələr/
- The octopus is a tentacular creature, using its long arms to explore the ocean floor.
Examples
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In literature, the oral community of griot and audience risks being shattered by a tentacular invasion of authorial self-consciousness that loves its source material to death.
Academic text (1995) -
Still, it feels good not to rely on a bulging, tentacular corporate machine that tries to convince us we would be helpless blobs without their products.
Blog text (19) -
The tentacular trees faded, replaced by blocks of wood which then became metal.
Fiction book (1992) -
Then these twisted into tentacular monsters, making Colene nervous again.
Fiction book (1992) -
I don't think we (as members of the Tentacular Horde) have much to argue about here.
Blog text (24) -
He had three stumpy legs and six or eight tentacular arms, and his head was covered with a forest of thinner, longer tentacles that rose and pointed their sucker-dotted tips toward her.
Fiction book (1999) -
It was alive and moving, overseeing its bane subjects and their chaotic worship, A tentacular Titan pleased with the spectacle around it.
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The artist's sculpture featured tentacular shapes that seemed to reach out into the viewers' space.
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During the deep-sea dive, we encountered a tentacular organism that glowed in the dark waters.
Synonyms
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6.8
Having long soft arms like an octopus or squid
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tentacular comes from tentacle, which goes back to the old root tentare meaning 'to reach' or 'to feel'. Picture long arms reaching out to touch or grab things — so tentacular describes something that has or acts like those reaching, grasping arms, whether in a sea animal or as a wide, far-reaching influence.