noun
- A lavishly produced performance.
- usage: "they put on a Christmas spectacular"
adjective
- Sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect.
- usage: "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"
- Characteristic of spectacles or drama.
- usage: "spectacular dives from the cliff"
- Having a quality that thrusts itself into attention.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: outstanding, prominent, salient, striking
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