cultish

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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.

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