Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Relating to fireworks: Pertaining to the creation, display, or effects of fireworks.
   • Brilliantly dazzling or spectacular: Suggestive of the dramatic, colorful, or impressive nature of fireworks, often used to describe a dazzling display of skill, wit, or artistry.

2. Noun:

   • A firework device: (Usually plural: pyrotechnics) A device that uses controlled combustion to produce colored flames, light, smoke, or noise for illumination, signaling, or entertainment.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The festival's grand finale featured a pyrotechnic display that lit up the entire sky.
  • Her speech was filled with pyrotechnic rhetoric that captivated the audience.
• Noun:
  • The crew carefully set up the pyrotechnics for the concert. (Here, "pyrotechnics" refers to the physical fireworks devices.)
  • The pyrotechnics during the show were synchronized to the music.

Advanced Usage

• Figurative Use (Adjective): Often used to describe a non-literal, impressive, and showy demonstration of talent, especially in performance, writing, or debate.
  • The pianist's performance was more than skilled; it was truly pyrotechnic in its virtuosity.
• Noun (Uncountable, as a field): Can refer to the craft or art of making or displaying fireworks.
  • He studied the science of pyrotechnics for years.

Variants and Related Words

• Pyrotechnical (adjective): A less common variant with the same meaning as the adjective "pyrotechnic."
• Pyrotechnician (noun): A person who designs or sets off fireworks professionally.
• Pyrotechny (noun): The art of making or using fireworks; a dazzling display (archaic).

Synonyms

• Adjective (for dazzling): Dazzling, spectacular, brilliant, virtuosic, flamboyant.
• Noun (for fireworks): Fireworks, illuminations.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• Verbal pyrotechnics: A showy and impressive use of language.
  • The debate was less about substance and more about verbal pyrotechnics.
• Pyrotechnic display: Can refer to both literal fireworks and a figurative show of skill.
  • The guitarist ended the solo with a pyrotechnic display of speed and precision.

Adjective

1. suggestive of fireworks
   • pyrotechnic keyboard virtuosity
   • a pyrotechnic wit
2. of or relating to the craft of making fireworks
   • pyrotechnic smokes

Noun

1. (usually plural) a device with an explosive that burns at a low rate and with colored flames; can be used to illuminate areas or send signals etc.