"spectacular" meaning in All languages combined

See spectacular on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

IPA: /spɛkˈtæk.jʊ.lə/ [UK], /spɛkˈtæk.jə.lɚ/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-spectacular.wav [UK] Forms: spectacular [positive], more spectacular [comparative], most spectacular [superlative]
Head templates: {{adj|more=true}} [POS TABLE]
  1. When something is spectacular, it is very amazing and fascinating, making people surprised and excited about it.
    Sense id: simple-spectacular-en-adj-EkHh9oJn
     
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spectacular",
      "tags": [
        "positive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more spectacular",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most spectacular",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "more": "true"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "spec‧tac‧u‧lar",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The bridge is spectacular! I have never seen something like it before!"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "When something is spectacular, it is very amazing and fascinating, making people surprised and excited about it."
      ],
      "id": "simple-spectacular-en-adj-EkHh9oJn"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/spɛkˈtæk.jʊ.lə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/spɛkˈtæk.jə.lɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-spectacular.wav",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spectacular"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spectacular",
      "tags": [
        "positive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more spectacular",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most spectacular",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "more": "true"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "spec‧tac‧u‧lar",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The bridge is spectacular! I have never seen something like it before!"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "When something is spectacular, it is very amazing and fascinating, making people surprised and excited about it."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/spɛkˈtæk.jʊ.lə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/spɛkˈtæk.jə.lɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-spectacular.wav",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spectacular"
}

Download raw JSONL data for spectacular meaning in All languages combined (0.8kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-31 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.