spectacular
Speech parts
1. spectacular - Noun
2. spectacular - Adjective
3. spectacular - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show.
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.
Pertaining to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago.
We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.
No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.