Usually means: Causing great public excitement, interest.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word sensational:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sensational: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sensational: Merriam-Webster
  3. sensational: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sensational: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sensational: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sensational: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sensational, sensational: Wordnik
  8. sensational: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sensational: Wiktionary
  10. sensational: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sensational: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sensational: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sensational: Dictionary.com
  14. sensational: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sensational: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sensational (album), Sensational (musician), Sensational: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sensational: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sensational: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sensational: Rhymezone
  20. sensational: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sensational: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sensational: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sensational: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sensational: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sensational: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sensational: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sensationally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or pertaining to sensation.
adjective:  Piquing or arousing the senses.
adjective:  Provoking a reaction of interest or excitement.
adjective:  Exceptionally great.

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