antipoetic

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antipoetic
Adjective
  • And the vibes were somewhere between downtown book launch and conceptual prank, as On the Rag — L.A.’s buzzy new literary tabloid — celebrated its arrival at Night Gallery with a cigarette-clouded bash full of poetry, prose and potting soil.
    Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
  • The use of police brutality as ecological metaphor—I’m not sure that’s allowed either, and Mike’s prose style had bravura and pyrotechnics that are not normal in that arena either, any more than was his passionate engagement on behalf of the underdogs and outsiders.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • This was an obtuse and unpoetic diktat, a showy way to miss the fact that a song’s history—its use over time, by real people, inspired by the exigencies of ritual and action—can inform its meaning more than its mere lyrics ever could.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • Atlanta and its suburbs are a surprisingly Whitmanesque experiment in pluralism, in which unpoetic concrete strip malls substitute for lyrical spears of summer grass.
    Sanjena Sathian, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
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“Antipoetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antipoetic. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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