Spectacular \Spec*tac"u*lar\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show.
"Spectacular sports." --G. Hickes.
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2. Adapted to excite wonder and admiration by a display of
pomp or of scenic effects; as, a spectacular celebration
of some event; a spectacular play.
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3. Pertaining to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
spectacular
adj 1: sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect; "a
dramatic sunset"; "a dramatic pause"; "a spectacular
display of northern lights"; "it was a spectacular
play"; "his striking good looks always created a
sensation" [syn: dramatic, striking]
2: of the nature of spectacle or drama; "spectacular dives from
the cliff"
3: having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; "an
outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by
anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own
freedom"; "a new theory is the most prominent feature of
the book"; "salient traits"; "a spectacular rise in
prices"; "a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the
statue of Eros in the center"; "a striking resemblance
between parent and child" [syn: outstanding, prominent,
salient, striking]
n : a lavishly produced performance; "they put on a Christmas
spectacular"
WordNet (r) 2.0
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "spectacular":
actor-proof, all-star, amazing, astonishing, astounding, ballet,
balletic, blatant, brazen, brazenfaced, breathtaking, cinematic,
cinematographic, colorful, confounding, crude, dramatic,
dramatical, eye-opening, film, filmic, flagrant, flaring,
flaunting, garish, gaudy, glaring, gorgeous, ham, hammy,
histrionic, legitimate, loud, lurid, melodramatic, meretricious,
milked, mind-boggling, miraculous, monodramatic, movie, obtrusive,
operatic, overacted, overplayed, overwhelming, prodigious, scenic,
screaming, sensational, shameless, stagelike, stageworthy,
staggering, stagy, starstruck, startling, stellar, striking,
stunning, stupendous, surprising, tawdry, theaterlike, theatrical,
thespian, thrilling, thrown away, underacted, underplayed,
vaudevillian, vulgar, wonderful, wondrous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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