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