spectacular

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"
    

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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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