ÉCLAT Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

éclat

noun

Definition of éclat

as in pomp

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Noun

There's no fluff or pomp to distract you, and everything from the seats to the door panels have been designed with ergonomics and accessibility in mind.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 July 2026
This is a charming center-of-town property with tons of old-school pomp.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026

Definition of pomp

Noun

The parades — accompanied by dances, music and song — draw large crowds and tourists every year.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
Events ranging from a baby parade in Flint, Michigan, to a rock concert in Herndon, Virginia, and the America’s Mile marathon in Pittsburgh were canceled Friday as smoke lingered.

— Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 18 July 2026

Definition of parade

Noun

Jeannette Jackson received the honor at the Mummers Museum during a community discussion about Philadelphia traditions and the future of mummery.

— Eva Andersen, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
But what was once the norm can now seem a kind of ableist mummery, which this production attempts to sidestep by offering a Richard with no physical impairments at all.

— New York Times, New York Times, 11 July 2022

Definition of mummery

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In those films, Nolan retained his auteurist fire while creating big, bold populist extravaganzas.

— Brent Lang, Variety, 21 July 2026
That number will surely grow once the $100million qualifier pot is divvied up, though so too will the take of the elite clubs, whose players were plenty present in the two-year build-up to this summer’s extravaganza.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 21 July 2026

Definition of extravaganza

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Aquino had recently been awarded second place in the regional pageant, which precedes the national Miss Universe Honduras pageant.

— Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026
Beyond her work in pageants, Malcolm was an actress, television presenter, and dance instructor.

— Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 20 July 2026

Definition of pageant

Noun

Partnerships That Last Stapp has seen enough cross-sector partnerships announced with fanfare and wound down within a year to have strong opinions about what separates the two outcomes.

— Keely Cat-Wells, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Without much fanfare, some of these brands have been quietly growing too, finding their community in their corner of the internet.

— Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 22 July 2026

Definition of fanfare

Noun

Euromonitor forecasts that the global eyewear industry (including contact lenses, spectacles, and sunglasses) will be worth $171 billion in 2026, up 4% in current terms.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 20 July 2026
The ongoing World Cup has made for a spectacle simply not seen elsewhere — maybe not even in Argentina.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 19 July 2026

Definition of spectacle

Noun

Monday started with the pageantry of a now-familiar political handover (Burnham being Britain’s seventh prime minister in a little more than a decade and the fifth in four years).

— Alexander Smith, NBC news, 20 July 2026
There is a lot of pageantry around the final match as well, with the World Cup closing ceremony and the tournament’s first-ever halftime show.

— Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 19 July 2026

Definition of pageantry

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