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Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.
Pedro Almodovar

Meaning of "spectacular" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SPECTACULAR

spectacular  [spɛkˈtækjʊlə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPECTACULAR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spectacular can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SPECTACULAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Spectacular

Spectacular may refer to: ▪ "Spectacular", a 2004 song by Graham Coxon ▪ "Spectacular", the 2010 debut single by Kiely Williams ▪ Spectacular!, a 2009 television movie produced by Nickelodeon ▪ Spectacular , Jamaican reggae artist ▪ Restoration spectacular, an elaborately staged "machine play" popular in Restoration-era London ▪ Spectacular Smith, a member of Pretty Ricky ▪ Spectacular mark, a term for a type of mark in Australian rules football. The typical spectacular mark involves a player jumping up on the back of another player in order to take the mark, or catch...

Definition of spectacular in the English dictionary

The first definition of spectacular in the dictionary is of or resembling a spectacle; impressive, grand, or dramatic. Other definition of spectacular is unusually marked or great. Spectacular is also a lavishly produced performance.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SPECTACULAR


bacula
ˈbækjʊlə
Dracula
ˈdrækjʊlə
facula
ˈfækjʊlə
hibernacula
ˌhaɪbəˈnækjʊlə
intertentacular
ˌɪntətɛnˈtækjʊlə
macula
ˈmækjʊlə
macular
ˈmækjʊlə
nonspectacular
ˌnɒnspɛkˈtækjʊlə
oracular
ɒˈrækjʊlə
receptacula
ˌresepˈtækjʊlə
receptacular
ˌrɛsɛpˈtækjʊlə
retinacular
ˌrɛtɪˈnækjʊlə
saccular
ˈsækjʊlə
supernacular
ˌsuːpəˈnækjʊlə
sustentacula
ˌsʌstenˈtækjʊlə
sustentacular
ˌsʌstɛnˈtækjʊlə
tabernacular
ˌtæbəˈnækjʊlə
tentacular
tɛnˈtækjʊlə
unspectacular
ˌʌnspɛkˈtækjʊlə
vernacular
vəˈnækjʊlə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPECTACULAR

spectacle
spectacle case
spectacled
spectacles
spectacularity
spectacularly
spectate
spectator
spectator sport
spectatorial
spectatorship
spectatrices
spectatrix
spectinomycin
Spector
spectra
spectral
spectral class
spectral luminous efficiency
spectral type

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPECTACULAR

articular
auricular
binocular
calcular
cardiovascular
circular
curricular
extracurricular
in particular
macromolecular
molecular
muscular
ocular
particular
perpendicular
popular
secular
testicular
vascular
vehicular
ventricular

Synonyms and antonyms of spectacular in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SPECTACULAR»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «spectacular» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of spectacular

Translation of «spectacular» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPECTACULAR

Find out the translation of spectacular to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spectacular from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spectacular» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

辉煌的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

espectacular
570 millions of speakers

English

spectacular
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शानदार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رَائِع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эффектный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

espetacular
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দর্শনীয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

spectaculaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Spektakuler
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

spektakulär
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

壮観な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

장대한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Biasa
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngoạn mục
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கண்கவர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नेत्रदीपक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

muazzam
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spettacolare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

widowiskowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ефектний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spectaculos
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θεαματικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skouspelagtige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spektakulär
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spektakulær
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spectacular

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPECTACULAR»

The term «spectacular» is very widely used and occupies the 7.761 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPECTACULAR» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «spectacular» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «spectacular» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spectacular

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10 QUOTES WITH «SPECTACULAR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word spectacular.
1
J. J. Abrams
When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
2
Pedro Almodovar
Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.
3
Louis Bacon
I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.
4
Caitriona Balfe
I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is a horse race across the plains that all the young men enter - some as young as 12 years old. It's such a spectacular sight. It's incredible to think that this is a tradition that has been going on for centuries.
5
David Alan Basche
As an actor, I'm always critical watching others; it's just the nature of the beast. For me, any performance that doesn't cause my ego to say, 'I can do that' really signifies that it's spectacular.
6
John Battelle
Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital - pilots fly them, but aren't in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects - the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular - killing people, for example.
7
Malik Bendjelloul
I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
8
Lewis Black
The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.
9
Drew Bledsoe
Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly.
10
Jan de Bont
Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity... My mind goes very fast, and I can see all kinds of images that would be spectacular on the screen. But they would cost so much money, and would they really make the story that much better?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPECTACULAR»

Discover the use of spectacular in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spectacular and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Spectacular Now
This National Book Award Finalist is now a major motion picture -- one of the most buzzed-about films at Sundance 2013, starring Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller.
Tim Tharp, 2008
2
Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, ...
DIVScrutinizes spectacular rhetoric, the use of visual images and imagery to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them into human rights discourses geared toward Westerners./div
Wendy Hesford, 2011
3
I Spy Spectacular: A Book of Picture Riddles
Rhyming text invites young readers to find objects hidden in each photograph, with extra rhyming riddles to be matched with the photographs.
Jean Marzollo, 2011
4
Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema
An examination of the importance of popular action films such as Rambo and Thelma and Louise in a cinematic and political context. This is an area that has previously been ignored by contemporary film criticism.
Yvonne Tasker, 2012
5
Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris
Drawing on a wide range of written and visual materials, including private and business archives, and working at the intersections of art history, literature, and cinema studies, Schwartz argues that "spectacular realities" are part of the ...
Vanessa R. Schwartz, 1997
6
A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature
Jacqueline Goldsby shows that lynching cannot be explained away as a phenomenon peculiar to the South or as the perverse culmination of racist politics.
Jacqueline Goldsby, 2006
7
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the ...
For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of ...
Steve Knopper, 2009
8
Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body ...
Coinciding with an exhibition of the same name at the Hayward Gallery in London, this book brings together more than 240 objects from more than 80 medical and art museums and collections worldwide to present the art and science of the human ...
Martin Kemp, Marina Wallace, 2000
9
The Spectacular Few: Prisoner Radicalization and the ...
“Mark Hamm is, without doubt, the world’s leading expert on prison radicalization. Based on decades of research, this book presents a nuanced and sophisticated picture,.
Mark S. Hamm, 2013
10
Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of ...
Viewing hip-hop as the postmodern successor to African American culture's Jazz modernism, this book examines hip-hop music's role in the history of the African-American experience.
Russell A. Potter, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPECTACULAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spectacular is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Texans doctor: Jadeveon Clowney 'looks spectacular'
Lowe recently told Forbes.com the pass rusher "looks spectacular," seven months removed from microfracture surgery. The doctor added there is no hard ... «NFL.com, Jul 15»
2
Macy's 4th Of July Spectacular: Kelly Clarkson & More Perform — Pics
The 2015 Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular is one star-spangled and celeb-filled event. Along with epic fireworks, our favorite artists are hitting the stage ... «Hollywood Life, Jul 15»
3
Your guide to Boston's July 4 fireworks
Keith Lockhart will celebrate his 20th year as conductor of the Pops at the 42nd Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular on Saturday, July 4. If revelers can't make it ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
4
Child Cranks Up Medical Helicopter at Minnesota Air Spectacular
Child Cranks Up Medical Helicopter at Minnesota Air Spectacular. More. Safety questions emerge after a 6-year-old boy gets behind the controls of a helicopter ... «ABC News, Jun 15»
5
Pops announces special guests for July 4
The 42d Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular at the DCR Hatch Shell has unveiled ... to the thrill of leading the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular for the Greater ... «Boston Globe, Jun 15»
6
Solar storm could bring more spectacular views of the aurora to the …
A large solar storm resulted in the northern lights being seen as far south as the south coast of England on Monday night and the Met Office says there could be ... «Eastbourne Herald, Jun 15»
7
Sandman Is Going To Be A Grand Spectacular Action Film With No …
“Big spectacular action movies are generally about crime fighters fighting crime and blowing sh-t up. This has nothing to do with that,” Joseph Gordon-Levitt told ... «Comicbook.com, Jun 15»
8
July 4th Fireworks Spectacular Returning to Jones Beach
Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced the return of the July 4th Fireworks Spectacular to Jones Beach, bringing back the Long Island patriotic tradition last ... «Patch.com, May 15»
9
Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular, review: 'one for the fans'
The Doctor Who theme tune, composed by Ron Grainer in 1963, is perhaps the most famous in the world. Dramatic, haunting and a little bit weird, it still ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
10
Cadbury Just Created An Amazing New Chocolate Bar We'll …
10 limited edition bars! Look out for a chance to win a Spectacular 7! #FreeTheJoy pic.twitter.com/DzCEasiwZe. — Cadbury UK (@CadburyUK) April 23, 2015. «Refinery29, Apr 15»

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