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Another word for sensational

sensational Synonyms

sensational

modif.

Fascinating
exciting, agitating, marvelous, moving, incredible, astonishing, superb, breathtaking, eloquent, surprising, thrilling, spectacular, dramatic, stirring; see also impressive 1, interesting.
Melodramatic
exaggerated, excessive, lurid, emotional, startling, stimulating.

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Another word for sensational

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Of or relating to sensation or the senses:
sensitive, sensorial, sensory, sensual, sensuous. See awareness, body
Suggesting drama or a stage performance, as in emotionality or suspense:
dramatic, histrionic, histrionical, melodramatic, spectacular, theatric, theatrical. See excite, style, surprise
Particularly excellent:
divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, glorious, marvelous, splendid, superb, terrific, wonderful. (Informal) dandy, dreamy, great, ripping, super, swell, tremendous. (Slang) cool, groovy, hot, keen¹, neat, nifty. Idiom: out of this world. See good

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I make the predictions in this book not to be sensational or controversial.
(Official Returns of the Board of Trade.) Her most sensational prophecies had to do with Cardinal Wolsey, the duke of Suffolk, Lord Percy and other men prominent at the court of Henry VIII.
He was at home in Voltaire and Rousseau, but had little or no acquaintance with the French sensational philosophy.
Of discoveries superficially sensational there are few or none to record, and the weight of his work is for the most part to be appreciated only by professed physicists.
In somewhat sensational and affected but prophetic words Gaj compared Illyria to a lyre, " a triangle between Skutari, Varna and Villach.

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