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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a lavishly produced performance;
- Example: "they put on a Christmas spectacular"


ADJECTIVE (3)

1. sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect;
- Example: "a dramatic sunset"
- Example: "a dramatic pause"
- Example: "a spectacular display of northern lights"
- Example: "it was a spectacular play"
- Example: "his striking good looks always created a sensation"
[syn: dramatic, spectacular, striking]

2. characteristic of spectacles or drama;
- Example: "spectacular dives from the cliff"

3. having a quality that thrusts itself into attention;
- Example: "an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom"
- Example: "a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book"
- Example: "salient traits"
- Example: "a spectacular rise in prices"
- Example: "a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center"
- Example: "a striking resemblance between parent and child"
[syn: outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular, striking]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Pertaining to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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, spectacular, striking]
    2: characteristic of spectacles 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,
       spectacular, striking]
    n 1: a lavishly produced performance; "they put on a Christmas
         spectacular"


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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