pyrotechnic
English
Etymology
From Latin pyrotechnica, from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + τεχνικός (tekhnikós, “skillful, workmanlike”). Analyzable as pyro- + technic.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌpaɪɹoʊˈtɛknɪk/
- Hyphenation: py‧ro‧tech‧nic
Adjective
pyrotechnic (not comparable)
- Of or relating to fireworks.
- Of or relating to the use of fire in chemistry or metallurgy.
- Resembling fireworks.
- 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H. T. Willetts, transl., August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 178:
- They had spent much of June and July walking about the plateau near Poronin and discussing Kuba’s pyrotechnic schemes for making money. Possibly because of his bourgeois origins, Hanecki had a remarkable financial flair, and extraordinary grasp of money matters—a quality as valuable as it was rare in a revolutionary.
- 2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell 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 hell 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.
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- Of or relating to pyrotechny. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Translations
of or relating to fireworks
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of or relating to the use of fire in chemistry or metallurgy
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resembling fireworks
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of or relating to pyrotechny
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Anagrams
- necrophytic, nephrocytic