A fork of Rural Dictionary
Any public show that is known to suck, but has yet to fail. Often used to describe poor fireworks displays that were nowhere near as good as advertised.
"Man, that fireworks show last night in Roanoke was craptacular
A situation or thing that is so horrible, it is spectacularly horrible.
My house burning down on Christmas Eve last year was just craptacular.
When something is really crappy but also spectacular at the same time.
That trick was craptacular dude!!
Unlike shit-tacular, craptacular is something not spectacular. The words spectacular and spectacle both share 'spec-' and a rather good meaning, so if 'spec-' were to be traded in for 'crap-' surely the emphasis of the word would be turned around in an equally bad way.
Me:'Your gaming skills are craptacular.'
You:'Huh?'
Me:'...You suck.'
Much like the inverse of a killtacular, this is a word used to describe one's amazing ability to fail so hard at a first person shooter, that they manage to die/lose 5 times in 5 seconds.
Player 1: Dude I'm going for a Killtacular!
Player 2: More like a Craptacular...
When someone who was once great doesn't know when to throw in the towel, and they keep subjecting the public to their crap, time and time again, diluting their once great reputation.
Craptacular is Michael Jordan's time spent in Minor League baseball.
Did you see Ringo Starr's latest performance on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart? Yes, it was craptacular.
Something unbelievable crap, opposite to spectacular.
Me - How was the film?
Jen - It was craptacular!