pyrotechnic
adjUS /ˌpaɪɹoʊˈtɛknɪk/
Etymology From Latin pyrotechnica, from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + τεχνικός (tekhnikós, “skillful, workmanlike”). Analyzable as pyro- + technic.
1
Of or relating to fireworks.
2
Of or relating to the use of fire in chemistry or metallurgy.
3
Resembling fireworks.
- 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:
- [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):
- Derived terms
- pyrotechnically, pyrotechnic composition, pyrotechnic initiator, pyrotechnist