Spectatorial
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /spɛktəˈtɔːɹɪəl/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Spectatorial is an adjective meaning Pertaining to a spectator.
Meaning
Pertaining to a spectator.
More Meanings
- Suitable for spectating.
Example Sentences
Louis XIV had been his own Principal Dancer in court ballets down to the 1670s, but he increasingly took a spectatorial rather than a participatory role in entertainments, which became fewer and less grand.
Upon these Directions, together with other secret Articles herein inclosed, you are to govern your self, and give Advertisement thereof to me at all convenient and spectatorial Hours, when Men of Business are to be seen.
He was a psychologist rather than a philosopher, and his interest and zest in life, in the relationships of simple people, the intermingling of personal emotions and happy comradeships, kept him from ever forming cynical or merely spectatorial views of humanity.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include spectacular, spectrous, perspectival, perspectivic, observatorial, observative.
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