anvilicious
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Meaning · English
Conveyed in a heavy-handed, unsubtle way; preachy.
Register: slang
Where it’s used:
Used
American English
Examples
When you take something as subtle, ballsy, and downright mythic as Dark Will and turn it into the anvilicious, ambitionless, and dreadfully banal travesty that was the Crack Magick arc, that's not a big hubristic dream that went wrong; that's the utter lack of a dream, the complete failure of imagin
Usage example from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).
Common questions
What does “anvilicious” mean?
Conveyed in a heavy-handed, unsubtle way; preachy.
Is “anvilicious” formal or informal?
anvilicious is generally slang.