craptacular

Amazingly, spectacularly bad

Craptacular blends crap with spectacular to describe something impressively bad—so awful it circles back to being noteworthy: The special effects were craptacular.

The word carries affection alongside mockery, often applied to low-budget movies, failed projects, or entertainingly terrible experiences.

Sometimes used self-deprecatingly: My craptacular attempt at home repair.

quality

awful

Extremely bad quality

dreadful · atrocious · appalling · disastrous · ghastly · deplorable · shoddy · subpar · lousy · mediocre

spectacle

trainwreck

Chaotic, unfolding catastrophe

catastrophe · meltdown · implosion · collapse · flop · bomb · turkey · stinker · clunker

ironic

sarcasm

Irony used to mock

absurdity · ridicule · snark · tongue-in-cheek · self-deprecating · campy · B-movie · kitsch · roast · schadenfreude

slang

crapfest

Slang for awful spectacle

dreck · dud · bust · waste · junk · rubbish · claptrap · hogwash · tripe · bilge

Opposites
quality/excellence

craptacularspectacular

Strikingly impressive to behold

excellent · magnificent · outstanding · brilliant · superb

Family

crap, crappy, crappier, crappiest, spectacular, spectacle, spectacles, spectacularly

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG