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Webster 1828 Edition


Pyrotechnic

PYROTECHNIC

, PYROTECHNICAL,
Adj.
[Gr., fire, art.] Pertaining to fire works or the art of forming them.

Definition 2024


pyrotechnic

pyrotechnic

English

Adjective

pyrotechnic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to fireworks.
  2. Of or relating to the use of fire in chemistry or metallurgy.
  3. Resembling fireworks.
    • 2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to **** for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to **** for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
      [T]he Weston clan, whose dysfunctions are pyrotechnic in their scale and intensity.
  4. Of or relating to pyrotechny.

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