MEANING
Having tentacles, resembling tentacles, or relating to those flexible appendages.
Use it for
A grasping body with unfamiliar appendages; multiple flexible extensions; cosmic creature anatomyGive the extensions a visible structure and action instead of relying on the genre association.
Words that belong together
- tentacular limbs
- tentacular creature
- tentacular extensions
On the page
Tentacular limbs reached through the broken hatch.
The specimen's tentacular extensions curled around the probe.
A tentacular shape moved beneath the translucent skin.
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- Base
- tentacular
Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Technical or descriptive; does not by itself imply enormous size, evil, or alien origin. Use the intended physical sense rather than a vague metaphor for influence. Adjective; normally non-gradable; use the base form rather than mechanical -er/-est forms. Derived/related family (not inflections): tentacle (base noun).
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