pyrotechnic
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Definition
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.
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
- suggestive of fireworks
- pyrotechnic keyboard virtuosity
- a pyrotechnic wit
- of or relating to the craft of making fireworks
- pyrotechnic smokes
Noun
- (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.