pyrotechnic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌpaɪɹoʊˈtɛknɪk/ (US)
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Etymology
From Latin pyrotechnica, from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + τεχνικός (tekhnikós, “skillful, workmanlike”). Analyzable as pyro- + technic.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Of or relating to fireworks.
- (not-comparable) Of or relating to the use of fire in chemistry or metallurgy.
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(not-comparable) Resembling fireworks.
[T]he Weston clan, whose dysfunctions are pyrotechnic in their scale and intensity.
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):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.
1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 178:
Deriveds
pyrotechnic initiator · pyrotechnist · pyrotechnic composition · pyrotechnically
Translations (18)
cmn 煙火的 /烟火的 (of or relating to fireworks) · sh pirotèhničkī (of or relating to pyrotechny) · sh pirotèhničkī (of or relating to the use of fire in chemistry or metallurgy) · sh pirotèhničkī (of or relating to fireworks) · es pirotécnico (of or relating to fireworks) · ca pirotècnic (of or relating to fireworks) · fi räjähdystekninen (of or relating to pyrotechny) · sh pirotèhničkī (resembling fireworks) · fi pyrotekninen (of or relating to fireworks) · fr pyrotechnique (of or relating to fireworks) · sv pyroteknisk (of or relating to fireworks) · ca pirotècnic (of or relating to pyrotechny) · bg пиротехнически (of or relating to fireworks) · fi pyrotekninen (of or relating to the use of fire in chemistry or metallurgy) · ru пиротехни́ческий (of or relating to fireworks) · la pyrotechnicus (of or relating to fireworks) · fi pyrotekninen (of or relating to pyrotechny) · fi ilotulitusmainen (resembling fireworks)