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- would you care to read your short lyric aloud?
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- the guitarist sang a gentle lyric while playing
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lyric
adjectiveSynonyms & Antonyms of lyric (Entry 2 of 2)
- they performed a slow, lyric dance for the audience
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- the film's lyric photography really enhanced its romantic mood
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- 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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“Lyric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lyric. Accessed 26 Jan. 2022.
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The first known use of lyric was in 1567
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