Entry Word: poetic

Function: adjective

Meaning: having qualities suggestive of poetry <your description of the sun setting over the Grand Canyon was a particularly poetic piece of writing>

Synonyms lyric, lyrical, poetical

Related Words metric, metrical, rhyming, rhythmic (or rhythmical); rhapsodic (also rhapsodical); florid, flowery, grandiloquent, highfalutin, high-flown, ornate; figurative, metaphorical, symbolic (also symbolical)

Near Antonyms factual, literal, matter-of-fact

Antonyms prosaic, prose, unpoetic