pyrotechnic
/ˌpʌɪrə(ʊ)ˈtɛknɪk
/adjective
1Relating to fireworks: a pyrotechnic display...
- She's receiving adulatory applause from the audience, and has a really exciting pyrotechnic display too.
- I can't watch pyrotechnic displays anymore without tearing up.
- Adding to the dynamism of the music are frequent pyrotechnic displays, inventive sets and props, and several giant video screens.
2Brilliant or sensational: his writing contains more pyrotechnic energy, more colour and action...
- Add to that the pyrotechnic brilliance of Ted Turner and there's a volatile brew ready to explode.
Derivatives
pyrotechnician
- In pursuit of this passion, all have put themselves through a rigid training course to qualify as pyrotechnicians.
- He was known as the ‘naughty little Scott boy’, she recalls, a pyrotechnician with a talent for constructing fireworks.
- At his worst he writes like a cheapskate pyrotechnician, full of dazzling, diverting effects which fizzle out pretty quickly.
pyrotechnical
- This one has more pyrotechnical gore, better acting, slicker direction but very few moments when it is scary at all.
- Rosand added a few additional pyrotechnical flourishes to add to the Spanish-Slavic brew - super fireworks indeed!
- Nevertheless, Boada yearns for more than pyrotechnical showpieces.
pyrotechnist
- The show - put together by pyrotechnists ‘Powder Monkeys’ from Finea, Co. Westmeath - came at considerable expense.
- It is time for amateur pyrotechnists to stand up and be counted.
- This free-floating globular pyrotechnist was intrinsically more irresponsible than a sea dragon.
Origin
Early 19th century: from pyro- 'fire' + Greek tekhnē 'art' + -ic.
Rhymes
- Seton, St. Elizabeth Ann
- set (or lay or put) store by (or on)
- set (or put) one's hand to
- set (or put) one's seal to (or on)
- set (or rock) someone back on their heels
- setose
- influenza bacillus
- influenzaed
- influenzal
- influenza virus
- influenzoid
- influx
- influx control
- info
- info age
- infobahn
- infobot
- infocentre
- infodemic
- info dump
- infoglut
- infographic
- infoholic
- infolded
- infolding