poetical


poetical

adjective

Definition of POETICAL

having qualities suggestive of poetry <love letters that were filled with poetical phrases>
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)

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