Cthulhu

[kuh-thoo-loo]

noun

1. an otherworldly entity, usually portrayed as a gigantic winged creature with a humanoid body and a tentacled face, that was created by the horror writer H.P. Lovecraft in the 1928 short story The Call of Cthulhu and became an important part of Lovecraft's mythos, later also becoming a popular culture reference.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Cthulhu¹

Coined in 1928 by U.S. writer H.P. Lovecraft ( def. ) (1890–1937) in his short story The Call of Cthulhu, published in the U.S. pulp magazine Weird Tales; resemblance to chthonian or chthonic is accidental

Example Sentences

On the other hand — and it’s more like the many tentacles of Cthulhu than a hand — Larsen reports that the supposed intelligence about the Tren de Aragua criminal gang’s links to Maduro, and its alleged widespread infiltration of the U.S., appears to come from a single dubious source.

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In his most famous work, “The Call of Cthulhu,” science fiction writer H.P.

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Name the powerful emotions you feel and set them aside, because unleashing your anger, outrage, disgust and so forth — as, again, with Cthulhu — only nourishes him.

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In essence, the United States government would become a type of fascist Cthulhu monster, an extension of Trump's evil twisted mind and pathological impulses.

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There is a cultural feeling of doom, this sense that Cthulhu underlies modern society, and we are waiting for it to collapse, or worse.

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