spectacular
IPA: spɛktˈækjʌɫɝ
noun
- A spectacular display.
- (advertising) A pop-up (folded paper element) in material sent by postal mail.
adjective
- Amazing or worthy of special notice.
- (dated) Related to, or having the character of, a spectacle or entertainment.
- Relating to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.
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Examples of "spectacular" in Sentences
- The ceilings of the duomi are spectacular.
- The flora of the region is absolutely spectacular.
- If the day is cloudy the view is less spectacular.
- If the day is cloudy, the view is less spectacular.
- Limit the list to a handful of the most spectacular.
- The most spectacular example of this is hard to find.
- Too bad because those trips were in spectacular country.
- "The word 'spectacular' would be an understatement," one said.
- In this instance, the word "spectacular" is not an exaggeration.
- The first is the spectacular scale and expense of the enterprise.
- The nightly illumination of this enchanting temple is spectacular.
- The embellishment was then spectacular and the street became pedestrian.
- As a commodity the spectacular is developed to the detriment of the real.
- Another of what she calls her "spectacular failures" was a recent project for the Louvre in Paris.
- "We have leads," Baroin told Europe 1 radio, saying that what he called a "spectacular" attack was "probably the first time" that the French government's computer system had been hit on this scale.
- ARENA: Well, I'll tell you that right now, the stance of the intelligence community is one of a lot of concern, only because the intelligence continues to suggest that al Qaeda is planning what they call a spectacular attack on U.S. soil.
- The U.S. military says that while the insurgent groups like al Qaeda are on the run, they have not lost their capacity to not only run more detention centers or torture centers like this one to keep the local populations in check, but also to stage what they call spectacular attacks to bring more public attention to their cause.
- Besides losing both world wars in spectacular fashion, near total destruction in the thirty years war, being Napoleons personal chess board, and spending half of this past century partitioned and garrisoned by the competing superpowers, Germany has spent most of its history as a collection of small principalities under varying degrees of rule by Hapsburgs.