Definitions for spectacular

spectacular spec·tac·u·lar

Spelling: [spek-tak-yuh-ler]
IPA: /spɛkˈtæk yə lər/

Spectacular is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 1166 anagrams from letters in spectacular (aaccelprstu).

Definitions for spectacular

noun

  1. a single television production featuring well-known performers and characterized by elaborate sets, costumes, staging, etc. Compare special (def 14).
  2. an impressive, large-scale display:

adjective

  1. of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
  2. dramatically daring or thrilling:

Origin of spectacular

1675-85; Latin spectācul(um) (see spectacle) + -ar1

Examples for spectacular

Most of them were large birds—hawks, egrets, and even peacocks—for spectacular visual effect as they took flight.

The Macallan 18 had long being a personal favorite, one of the first spectacular single malts that I ever had the chance to try.

I'd like to do a spectacular refunding of what I stole and lost.

It is not the spectacular actions of an exercise that make it the best.

Today, the train chugs north out of Kanchanaburi over the famous bridge before it hits a spectacular bend in the river.

But perhaps the most spectacular lot in the sale is a silver jug, a birthday present to Churchill from his War Cabinet in 1942.

And why did the Western Powers lose their grip in such a spectacular fashion in the decade following the end of the war?

Indeed where there is evidence of the spectacular, it is often the least important part of revival.

It is the spectacular which more readily appeals to the Mexican.

I am confident it can be said that he has never in his life made a spectacular photograph.

Word Value for spectacular
Scrable

17

Words with friends

22

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