I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fine/magnificent/spectacular/dazzling display (=a very good one)
▪ The museum has a magnificent display of silver.
a resounding/outstanding/spectacular success (=very great success)
▪ Financially, the event was a resounding success.
a sensational/spectacular climax
▪ The match was a sensational climax to the season.
disastrous/spectacular etc flop
▪ The film was a complete flop.
spectacular/magnificent/wonderful etc (=very impressive)
▪ Tourists come for the winter sports and the spectacular scenery.
wonderful/magnificent/spectacular/breathtaking
▪ There are breathtaking views from the top of the hill.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ The sunset was as spectacular as ever.
▪ My room is pretty but not as spectacular as the rest of the hotel.
▪ The hotel features a lovely dining room overlooking the lake, where the view can truly be described as spectacular.
▪ Two years later the company's crash was just as spectacular and Bloom was fined £30,000 on charges in connection with the affair.
▪ However successful Gilbert's career in Shropshire had been, it had not proved as spectacular as Gould's.
▪ The scenery enroute to Craigendarroch is as spectacular as it is diverse.
▪ Perhaps this was deliberate, in order to obscure the prices which were as spectacular as the decor.
▪ Occasionally, there are other setbacks, though none as spectacular as the mess he got himself into during 1989.
less
▪ Diane Bell's path was similar, but less spectacular.
▪ A similar, though less spectacular, mass mortality occurred in 1957.
▪ The vast openness of Lappland may be less spectacular but the trails are flatter, well-trodden and rideable, sometimes.
▪ It was much less spectacular goal than Allen's equaliser.
▪ The open cluster M50 is less spectacular, but easy to locate.
▪ While this growth is less spectacular than that of the past few years, the cumulative impact is significant.
more
▪ Carlton Communications came from a broadly similar direction but with even more spectacular growth.
▪ Although I have seen flanges in several places, nowhere are they more spectacular than on the Juan de Fuca Ridge.
▪ It's as though the show had become somehow more spectacular.
▪ He is more spectacular in sheer technique than any other male dancer.
▪ When reports began to drift back from pentecostal revivals abroad, the flaming marvels became even more spectacular.
▪ Together with this person, you can attain results far more spectacular than either of you could achieve alone.
▪ The trap is in trying to be more spectacular than the movies.
most
▪ Again, it is set in the most spectacular countryside and well worth taking your camera to.
▪ Then came the most spectacular play.
▪ This festival is possibly the most spectacular of the city's many ceremonies.
▪ The most spectacular binocular object in Gemini is the open cluster M35.
▪ Their most spectacular coup by far was the discovery of Rommel's headquarters.
▪ April, May, October and November are the most spectacular months of an extraordinary year.
▪ The company's stock, first publicly offered in 1971, has been one of Wall Street's most spectacular performers.
▪ Its colours are probably the most spectacular in the Empire, consisting of purple and yellow, or alternatively purple and white.
quite
▪ The performance, nevertheless, is quite spectacular and colourful.
▪ Ablutions completed, a quite spectacular gold necklace was placed around my neck.
▪ I hear that there might be some quite spectacular player migrations from that period, notably in the Midlands.
▪ The theatre is quite spectacular, with the seating arrangement and the plays performed there are of a very high standard.
▪ The sweets in particular are quite spectacular, and are sometimes decorated with fresh flowers.
▪ Apparently the sight was quite spectacular.
▪ The drawing room is a quite spectacular octagonal room, with a 17-foot ceiling.
▪ I haven't seen it yet, but l am told it's quite spectacular.
so
▪ It is such relentless attention that makes her garden so spectacular for so much of the year.
▪ And besides, the diving was so spectacular.
▪ Subsequent ribbon development has been so spectacular that they were booming even before the election announcement.
▪ His defeat was so spectacular, it might have raised me up exactly as they said.
truly
▪ The experimental results that encouraged the financiers to support a rotor ship were truly spectacular.
▪ One of these comet families is truly spectacular.
▪ The two hour drive from Zurich to Hinterzarten takes you over the Swiss/German border at Koblenz/Waldshut and the scenery is truly spectacular.
▪ When the males are in breeding colour they are a truly spectacular fish.
▪ Pineapple and gin have a truly spectacular affinity, combining to make something bigger and better than either.
■ NOUN
display
▪ The Battle of Seattle was certainly a spectacular display of civil disobedience-but did it represent anything more than that?
▪ One of the targets, a munitions depot, went up in a spectacular display of fireworks.
▪ A superb trout hooked itself firmly and during a breathtaking few minutes gave a spectacular display and a wonderful fight.
▪ But on April 19, 1803 a spectacular display was observed in the southeastern United States.
event
▪ This was a rather spectacular event.
▪ The destruction of her temple, just after the conquest of Mecca in 8 / 630 was a spectacular event.
▪ This warmth, coupled with all the spectacular events, has made it a part of our lives we will never forget.
▪ Burning Bartle is not an especially spectacular event, but one which the local people are determined to keep going.
example
▪ A spectacular example is the giant galaxy Centaurus A, lying some 16 million light years away.
fashion
▪ Elsewhere, equities boiled over in spectacular fashion.
▪ Especially strong was Marin County, where every single zip code bounced back, sometimes in spectacular fashion.
▪ A serious error could easily result in every semi-conductor in the project being destroyed, possibly in spectacular fashion.
▪ They had waited for the Darkfall to blow itself out, which it did in spectacular fashion.
▪ Theatres specialise for children, ready to tell us tales, ancient and modern, in spectacular fashion.
▪ West ham had a couple of good shots on goal one of which Beaney tipped over the bar in spectacular fashion.
▪ It's a choice between you and them, either they die or Turry explodes in a spectacular fashion.
goal
▪ It was much less spectacular goal than Allen's equaliser.
▪ Molby swung in the free-kick and Saunders met it perfectly with his head on the near post to score a spectacular goal.
▪ Slaven is the master of the tap-ins while Hendrie has a reputation for scoring spectacular goals.
▪ Woodmill came back well after Humberside had taken a 2-1 lead with a spectacular goal scored from inside their own half.
growth
▪ Carlton Communications came from a broadly similar direction but with even more spectacular growth.
▪ Less celebrated has been a companion event: the even more spectacular growth of imports.
▪ It has been enjoying spectacular growth for its sales of the super absorbent polymers which make nappies that much more comfortable.
result
▪ No wonder he got such spectacular results at business!
▪ In past battles Steam Tanks have exploded with spectacular results, but in each case the machine has been meticulously rebuilt.
▪ Where it counts -achieving spectacular results - everyone works as a team. find that team is led by a Profitboss.
▪ Other critics say that microgravity experiments have been conducted in orbit since the 1970s and none has produced spectacular results.
rise
▪ The spectacular rise to power throughout the 1920s suddenly came to a halt, betrayed by the leaders who had inspired it.
▪ Share prices, often controlled, cornered or otherwise stage-managed by Wall Street pools, were subject to spectacular rises and plunges.
▪ The government's budget was strengthened by increased customs revenue and more particularly by a spectacular rise in indirect taxation.
scenery
▪ They come for the winter sports and the spectacular scenery.
▪ Other parks have more spectacular scenery, higher mountains or ocean views, but Yellowstone is the place for animals.
▪ Now I am quite prepared to believe that other countries can offer more obviously spectacular scenery.
▪ It's a five mile long artificial reservoir set among spectacular scenery in the Berwyn Mountains south of Snowdon.
▪ I spent an exhilarating day cruising the River Ord, speeding through spectacular scenery in a high-powered boat.
sight
▪ It's a spectacular sight, as the wildfowl jockey for position to grab the biggest beak or bill full of food.
▪ A young artist, Albrecht Durer, saw the spectacular sight, and painted the scene a little over a year later.
▪ One of the most spectacular sights promised during the four day event is a rally along the Antrim coast.
▪ Visit the Trummelbach Falls, a spectacular sight of seven illuminated waterfalls plummeting into the mountain.
▪ It was a spectacular sight - the best I've had of wild flowers in Britain.
▪ Seven miles away, the Aysgarth Falls make a spectacular sight.
success
▪ A professional photographer really gets down to it ... The big moment arrives and everything is a spectacular success.
▪ There were no failures among the more than one dozen recipes we tried; neither were there many spectacular successes.
▪ The mission was a spectacular success full of historical moments.
▪ His point had been proved with spectacular success.
▪ Yet in many ways the most spectacular success has been the new pension options.
▪ In a year of economic gloom for the car industry, it was a spectacular success.
▪ Such limited free trade has already been a spectacular success.
view
▪ Its saving grace, however, was a windowed passage-way with spectacular views of the sea and the land beyond.
▪ I was drawn to the spectacular view.
▪ Above these are the two main bedrooms with their spectacular views up and down the lake.
▪ Heading further north, a journey along the 60 miles of coast road is rewarding for its spectacular views.
▪ Custom homes with spectacular views of the downtown skyline fill the streets that snake through Baldwin Hills.
▪ An oasis of tranquillity with dramatically spectacular views.
▪ Passengers also enjoy the spectacular view.
waterfall
▪ No great torrents of water, no spectacular waterfalls, no deafening roars of waters disgorging their immense might.
▪ The Turtle rises so high behind Larimore Dam that it goes over a spillway and creates a spectacular waterfall 50 feet high.
▪ The Trummelbach Falls are nearby, spectacular waterfalls which plunge into the depths of the mountain.
▪ Beginning as crashing streams and spectacular waterfalls high up in the mountains, these quickly converge to form raging rivers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Houston experienced spectacular growth after the Civil War.
▪ The campground in Emerald Bay State Park has a spectacular setting.
▪ The view from the top floor is absolutely spectacular.
▪ To celebrate independence day, there was a spectacular fireworks display.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I felt as if I was taking part in history and the results were spectacular.
▪ It was a spectacular morning, and I was happy to hang out.
▪ Other buildings came and went, including one claimed by a spectacular 1854 fire.
▪ The theatre is quite spectacular, with the seating arrangement and the plays performed there are of a very high standard.
▪ We ended a perfect day sipping sangria at a cliffside restaurant, relaxing in the spectacular sunset.
▪ When he got there, he had to fight for reform and take one spectacular risk.
▪ When reports began to drift back from pentecostal revivals abroad, the flaming marvels became even more spectacular.
II.nounEXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Hot or not: This science-fiction spectacular is the most hyped movie of the summer.
▪ Jazz, film and literature festivals, entertainment spectaculars and superstar concerts.
▪ Within a year he could provide eight spectaculars, all ingeniously flexible to fit one- to three-hour bookings.