lyrical

lyrical

adjective

Definition of LYRICAL

1

having a pleasantly flowing quality suggestive of music <the lyrical cadences of voice-over narration give the film a very poignant quality>

Synonyms euphonious, lyrical, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, melodic, melodious, musical

Related Words dulcet, golden, sweet

Near Antonyms disconnected, staccato; discordant, dissonant, grating, harsh, inharmonious, jarring, strident, unmelodious, unmusical

Antonyms unlyrical

2

having qualities suggestive of poetry <the photographer achieves a very lyrical effect with her intentionally blurred images of flowers growing in the wild>

Synonyms bardic, lyric, lyrical, poetical, poeticized

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

Antonyms prosaic, prose, unlyrical, unpoetic