Dictionary Definition
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"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Something that has the aspects of a spectacle; to make a spectacle
of oneself; worthy of special notice.
- The parachutists were spectacular.
Translations
- French: spectaculaire
- German: spektakulär
- Spanish: espectacular
Extensive Definition
Spectacular may refer to:
- Spectacular (song), a 2004 song by Graham Coxon
- Restoration spectacular, an elaborately staged "machine play" popular in Restoration-era London
- Spectacular: The Movie, a 2005 movie directed by Casey Anderson
- Spectacular Blue Smith, a member of Pretty Ricky
- Spectacular (feeling), see mouth grazes by James Lafferty
- The Spectacular Spider-Man, a comic book and an animated television series*Spectacle
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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