Definition of "dorktastic"

Using what he calls “time-lapse phonography” to reduce an entire track down to its average frequency, [R. Luke] DuBois allows each of the 857 tunes one second of glory for every week it was No. 1 (Barry White only has time for a quickie, “Macarena” hovers for a terrifying 14 seconds). However dorktastic, the project reveals trends in timbre and taste.

2006 April, Christopher R. Weingarten, “Pop Suey!”, in Spin, volume 22, number 4, page 42

He was wearing some really dorktastic plaid shorts and a T-shirt that said “Kiss Me, I’m Irish.”

2008, Amy MacDonald, Too Much Flapdoodle!, New York, N.Y.: Melanie Kroupa Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 162

EA [Electronic Arts] and Origin [Systems] publicly unveiled UO2 [Ultima Online 2] in September 1999, bullet-pointing a sexy 3D engine, a fantasy-meets-steampunk setting, a reduced PVP focus, and dorktastic creature designs by Spawn creator Todd McFarlane.

2008 February, Ryan Scott, “Ultimate Online 2”, in Games for Windows: The Official Magazine, number 15, page 35

Cobble Hill’s “first hipster bar” sports a “funky living room-ish setting” with “interesting” artwork on the walls and a “low-key” vibe in the air; a “cool” back garden and occasional “dorktastic trivia” contests lead loyalists to label it “one of the best on Atlantic” Avenue.

2008, Curt Gathje, editor, New York City Nightlife 2008/09, New York, N.Y.: Zagat Survey, page 122

You “even” loved the Tech Report? Anyone who’d stare at the most beautiful women in the world before ogling 10 gear-packed pages of dorktastic tech clearly has his priorities all wrong…weirdo!

2008 September, “Letter Rip!”, in Maxim, page 20

Girl Scouts, marching band – I cannot tell you how many hours I’d spent in some dorktastic costume.

2009, Eireann Corrigan, Accomplice, Frome, Som: The Chicken House, published 2010, page 21

Quickly, she checked her dorktastic enthusiasm, pursing her lips like the poor man’s Posh.

2009, Rachel Maude, Petty in Pink, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Poppy, Little, Brown and Company, page 70

“[…] Hey, if I make it to the finals this spring, you can come with me.” “Dorktastic!”

2009, Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You, Viking, page 46

Del, you made my day! he wrote. Believe it or not, I love Tupperware. / Oh, I believe it, I thought. One thing was for sure. Nicholas was still a totally dorktastic know-it-all.

2011, Catherine R. Daly, chapter 3, in Coming Up Roses (Petal Pushers), Scholastic Inc., page 48

Harrison Bradlow is an avid zombie aficionado, as well as fan of most things dorktastic.

2011, Harrison Bradlow, “About the Author”, in If It Still Has a Head, It Isn’t Quite Dead: A Book of Poetry on Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts, Ghouls, and Other Generally Scary Monster-Type Creatures, Denver, Colo.: Outskirts Press, Inc., page 39

Miami-based anonym ANR (they seem to have chickened out on dorktastic original moniker Awesome New Republic) is a duo that specializes in cheerily melodic, eclectivore sunshine-synth-psych-pop roughly in the MGMT/Of Montreal mold, with the usual grab bag of touchstones that suggests (paisley Prince, brother-era Beach Boys, appropriated Afro-pop) a vague environmentalist streak.

2011 August 25–31, K. Ross Hoffman, “ANR”, in Philadelphia City Paper, number 1369, page 39

THE MOST DORKTASTIC BLOG ENTRY IN THE HISTORY OF BLOGGING, YO!!!

2012, Sarra Manning, Adorkable, Atom, page 304

I PUT ON my clear, dorktastic goggles automatically while Dylan fetched the dissecting tray.

2012, James Patterson, chapter 20, in Nevermore: The Final Maximum Ride Adventure, Young Arrow, page 81

Smiling, Talia kissed him. “I love you, band geek!” / “I love you, too, hot cheerleader!” Walden said. Sobering, he added, “Then you’re not disappointed in my dorktastic past?” / “Are you kidding? I love it. Being musical is cool,” Talia assured him.

2012, Lisa Plumley, Together for Christmas, Zebra Books, page 317

But geek chic is more than just a personal style statement. Professorial, downright dorktastic African-American NBA [National Basketball Association] stars are defying the expectation that they wear an intimidating hood facade, which is changing how we view black athletes—and how they view themselves.

2012 May 14, Sean Gregory, “NBA Nerd Alert. A studious look is redefining pro style”, in Time, volume 179, number 19, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., page 60

“The idea was to take a space that no one really saw and make it beautiful. Get people to appreciate what nature has to offer, get them away from their phones and computers and take a breath and listen to the birds and the water and just…be.” / “Is that what all your projects are supposed to do?” / She shrugged. “I guess so. Yes.” Now that she’d said it out loud, it sounded a little dorky. Dorktastic, maybe. Hopefully.

2013, Kristan Higgins, The Best Man, Harlequin HQN, page 328

“Dude, you totally need to join the chess team. Watching you slaughter Graham in a public forum would be freakin’ awesome.” / “Graham’s on the chess team?” / Miles leaned back in his chair and kicked his feet up onto the desk. “Is it a dorktastic activity? Graham’s the club president.”

2014, Kate Scott, Counting to D, Portland, Ore.: Elliott Books, page 79

He was full of dorktastic style, and weirdly enough, he’d become one of Chase’s closest friends since his Tale last spring.

2014, Shelby Bach, Of Sorcery and Snow (The Ever Afters), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, pages 66–67

In the waiting room, I saw you: front page of the Jasper Weekly in a dorktastic white shirt, black ribbon tie.

2014, Stasia Ward Kehoe, The Sound of Letting Go, Viking, page 357

“Terrible things happen. But I love to read cheering letters from women to suffragette prisoners during hunger strikes to get out the female vote or subversive lesbian identities in the nineteenth century, or the way native people turned their struggles into hymns of struggle that slipped under the radar from the masters in the plantation houses.” I realize that I’m talking so fast I’m barely breathing. “Sorry.” I raise my cup in a rueful toast. “I get carried away. Dorktastic, I know.”

2014, Lia Riley, Upside Down (Off the Map; 1), New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Forever, published 2015, page 133

She preferred the restrained head-nodding of music-loving crowds drinking in live bands arrayed on a stage, and if she had to dance at all, the practiced steps of ballroom, while admittedly dorktastic, were more her sort of thing: civilized, recognizable moves requiring at least some basic skill.

2016, Kemper Donovan, The Decent Proposal, Harper, page 144

That last one struck Natalie—did she really used to be that little girl with the dorktastic pigtails, feet barely able to touch the floor, waiting for Grampie to fix her a milkshake?

2017, Gillian French, The Door to January, Islandport Press, page 7