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Spectacular vs Thrilling - What's the difference?

spectacular | thrilling |

As adjectives the difference between spectacular and thrilling

is that spectacular is amazing or worthy of special notice while thrilling is causing the feeling of a sudden excitement.

As nouns the difference between spectacular and thrilling

is that spectacular is a spectacular display while thrilling is a thrill.

As a verb thrilling is

present participle of lang=en.

spectacular

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Amazing or worthy of special notice
    • The parachutists were spectacular .
  • (dated) Related to, or having the character of, a spectacle or entertainment
    • the merely spectacular
  • * G. Hickes
    • Spectacular sports.
  • * {{quote-news, 1910, August 21, Andre Tridon, Europe Flirts with Argentina to Win Her Rich Trade, The New York Times citation
    • , 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.

    • Derived terms

    * spectacularly * unspectacular

    Related terms

    * spectacle * species * speculate

    External links

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A spectacular display.
  • * 2010 , "Under the volcano", The Economist , 16 Oct 2010:
    • 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.

    thrilling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing the feeling of a sudden excitement.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}

    Synonyms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thrill.
  • * (William Hope Hodgson), The Night Land
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