Spectacular vs Amazing - What's the difference?
spectacular | amazing |
Amazing or worthy of special notice
(dated) Related to, or having the character of, a spectacle or entertainment
* G. Hickes
* {{quote-news, 1910, August 21, Andre Tridon, Europe Flirts with Argentina to Win Her Rich Trade, The New York Times
, passage=Those apparently insignificant events which really make history are seldom featured in the press; the merely spectacular too frequently crowds the essential out of the public sheets.}}
Relating to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.
A spectacular display.
* 2010 , "Under the volcano", The Economist , 16 Oct 2010:
* 1848 , John Bunyan and Robert Philip, The Greatness of the Soul: And the Unspeakableness of the Loss Thereof , page 29, T. Nelson
* 1909 , John Fryer and William Crooke, A New Account of East India and Persia: Being Nine Years' Travels, 1672-1681 , page 92, Hakluyt Society
* 1996 August 5, Tim Behrendsen, "Tim Behrendsen Lost and Spaced THE FINAL TRY", rec.games.computer.quake.misc, Usenet
* 1997 November 30, Sir Frederick, "Pro-Mormons are amazing also", alt.religion.mormon.fellowship, Usenet
* 1999 July 13, Irma Dobkin and Mary Jo Peterson, Gracious Spaces , page xix, McGraw-Hill Professional
* 2000 March 24, "Shadow", "Return of the Fulgore Rant!", alt.fan.dragons, Usenet
* 2001 February 3, Brian, "D3 weird FPS", alt.games.descent Usenet
* 2003 June 23, Thomas Bernhard, Three Novellas , page 31, University of Chicago Press
* 2004 October 23, MgClearwater, "George says: Joe and Brian stay..", alt.sports.baseball.ny-yankees, Usenet
* 2006 May 16, Simon Baird, "monkeyGTD is amazing- a few questions and suggestions", GTD TiddlyWiki, Google goups
As adjectives the difference between spectacular and amazing
is that spectacular is amazing or worthy of special notice while amazing is causing wonder and amazement; possessing uniquely wonderful qualities.As a noun spectacular
is a spectacular display.As a verb amazing is
present participle of lang=en.spectacular
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The parachutists were spectacular .
- the merely spectacular
- Spectacular sports.
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Derived terms
* spectacularly * unspectacularExternal links
* *Noun
(en noun)- Though business has more or less held up so far, a series of drug-related spectaculars sparked an exodus of the city's upper class this summer.
amazing
English
Verb
(head)- How many things have men found out to the amazing of one another, to the wonderment of one another, to the begetting of endless commendations of one another in the world
- Fancies to be persuaded of the confused Articulation of Multitudes met as in a Fair, conversing and making a chattering, to the amazing of them all.
- Amazing is judged relative what already exists, and Quake has the best underwater effects so far.
- Reality, especially God's Reality is amazing. For instance that there is something rather than nothing is amazing. [... ] Amazing is amazing.
- The amazing is happening.
- All that is impossibly amazing is considered nothing, and the impossibly amazing is considered normal.
- The amazing is that, in EXACTLY the same situation, the demo2 doesn't show this problem.
- Everything that amazes has its method, until we notice that the amazing is not amazing, has no method.
- Sheffield is an amazing athlete, how much of the amazing is provided from the Chemlab.
- Cool! Of course 99% of the amazing is due to the "powered by TiddlyWiki" part of MonkeyGTD.. :)