cultish

English

Etymology

From cult +‎ -ish.

Adjective

cultish (comparative more cultish, superlative most cultish)

1. (derogatory) Resembling or characteristic of a cult.

   a cultish movement

   • 2021, Dave Thompson, I Feel Love, page 194:

     As anyone who lived through those times will recall, a lot of pointless farting around was unleashed in the name of electronic music, particularly once the likes of Leer, Robert Rental, and Daniel Miller scored a degree of cultish fandom with their earliest releases, and provoked their own surge of imitators.

Synonyms

• cultlike
• cultic

Derived terms

• cultishly
• cultishness