spectacular

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: spec=tac=u=lar

CIDE DICTIONARY

spectacular, a. 

•  Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show.  G. Hickes.  [1913 Webster]
•  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]
•  Pertaining to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

spectacular, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or like a public show; striking, amazing, lavish.
2 strikingly large or obvious (a spectacular increase in output).
--n. an event intended to be spectacular, esp. a musical film or play.

Derivative

spectacularly adv.

Etymology

SPECTACLE, after oracular etc.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

spectacular

Ostentation

N ostentation, display, show, flourish, parade, etalage, pomp, array, state, solemnity, dash, splash, splurge, glitter, strut, pomposity, pretense, pretensions, showing off, fuss, magnificence, splendor, coup d'oeil, grand doings, coup de theatre, stage effect, stage trick, claptrap, mise en scene, tour de force, chic, demonstration, flying colors, tomfoolery, flourish of trumpets, pageant, pageantry, spectacle, exhibition, exposition, procession, turn out, set out, grand function, f=ete, gala, field day, review, march past, promenade, insubstantial pageant, dress, court dress, full dress, evening dress, ball dress, fancy dress, tailoring, millinery, man millinery, frippery, foppery, equipage, ceremony, ceremonial, ritual, form, formality, etiquette, puncto, punctilio, punctiliousness, starched stateliness, stateliness, mummery, solemn mockery, mouth honor, attitudinarian, fop, ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious, janty, jaunty, grand, pompous, palatial, high-sounding, turgid gairish, garish, gaudy, gaudy as a peacock, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip, flaunting, flashing, flaming, glittering, gay, splendid, magnificent, sumptuous, theatrical, dramatic, spectacular, ceremonial, ritual, solemn, stately, majestic, formal, stiff, ceremonious, punctilious, starched, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, decjed out, all decked out, en granite tenue, in best bib and tucker, in Sunday best, endimanch_e, chic, with flourish of trumpet, with beat of drum, with flying colors, ad captandum vulgus, honores mutant mores.