poetic

po·et·ic

adj \pō-ˈe-tik\

Definition of POETIC

1

a : of, relating to, or characteristic of poets or poetry b : given to writing poetry

2

: written in verse

3

: having or expressing the qualities of poetry (as though aesthetic or emotional impact) <her poetic beauty>

Examples of POETIC

1. <your description of the sun setting over the Grand Canyon was a particularly poetic piece of writing>

First Known Use of POETIC

1530

Related to POETIC

Synonyms: bardic, lyric, lyrical, poetical, poeticized

Antonyms: prosaic, prose, unlyrical, unpoetic

Related Words: metrical (or metric), rhyming (also riming), rhythmic (or rhythmical); rhapsodic (also rhapsodical); florid, flowery, grandiloquent, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-flown, ornate, purple; glamorized (also glamourized), idealized, romanticized; figurative, metaphoric (or metaphorical), symbolic (also symbolical)

Near Antonyms: factual, literal, matter-of-fact; antipoetic

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Other Literature Terms

apophasis, bathos, bildungsroman, bowdlerize, caesura, coda, doggerel, euphemism, poesy, prosody

Rhymes with POETIC

aesthetic, ascetic, athletic, balletic, bathetic, cometic, cosmetic, eidetic, emetic, frenetic, gametic, genetic, hermetic, limnetic, magnetic, mimetic, noetic, Ossetic, paretic, pathetic, phenetic, phonetic, phyletic, prophetic, prosthetic, pyretic, splenetic, syncretic, syndetic, synthetic, tonetic, Venetic