spectacular

adjective

1. 1

   Amazing or worthy of special notice.

   The parachutists were spectacular.

   Between 8 and 9 p.m., the recorder at a meteorological station at Harrow, Middlesex, picked up 1,470 lightning flashes within a radius of 10 to 15 miles, and observers at the station described the storm as "probably one of the most spectacular of the century."

2. 2

   datedRelated to, or having the character of, a spectacle or entertainment.

   the merely spectacular

   Those apparently insignificant events which really make history are seldom featured in the press; the merely spectacular too frequently crowds the essential out of the public sheets.

   One of the more striking facets of these accounts of the Hell's Angels is the extent to which the defiant homosexual behavior they describe—especially the spectacular same-sex kissing—so closely mirrors the behavior of young women in the early twenty-first century.

3. 3

   Relating to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.

noun

1. 1

   A spectacular display.

   Though business has more or less held up so far, a series of drug-related spectaculars sparked an exodus of the city's upper class this summer.

2. 2

   A pop-up (folded paper element) in material sent by postal mail.

   Here are a few examples of "spectaculars," or three-dimensional pieces, including those which have won awards […]

Forms

plural

spectaculars

comparative

more spectacular

superlative

most spectacular