Adjective: memetic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more memetic |
| Superlative | most memetic |
Sample Sentences
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The term internets[…]is an example of memetic usage that functions as a high profile in-joke. [2012, Michele Zappavigna, Discourse of Twitter and Social Media:]
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But let’s not assume that all of the innuendo and debate is a product of the Russian info-war, or that the Kremlin is a grandmaster of the memetic chessboard. [2015 July 7, Mark Galeotti, “'The west is too paranoid about Russia's information war'”, in The Guardian:]
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Within different communities, groups, or dyads, the same memetic media could be deployed as a long-standing community in-joke, dadaist absurdity, or even as fighting words (or images, as the case may be). [2018, Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner, The Ambivalent Internet […] , John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 122:]
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Gamergate, “the Fappening” (or Celebgate), and the subsequent Comicsgate are examples of campaigns that deployed active memetic warfare in racialized and gendered ways to attack and drive away a constructed enemy. [2021, Lisa Nakamura, Hanah Stiverson, Kyle Lindsey, Racist Zoombombing, Routledge, →ISBN:]
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Whether the e/accs have the better arguments or not, they seem to have money and memetic energy on their side. [2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 50:]
Adjectives inflected like memetic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From meme + -etic, by analogy with gene → genetic.
Verbs referencing "memetic"
Finnish Adjectives
memeettinen, Catalan Adjectives
memètic.