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as in poem
a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect
would you care to read your short lyric aloud?
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as in ballad
a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment
the guitarist sang a gentle lyric while playing
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as in lyrical
having a pleasantly flowing quality suggestive of music
they performed a slow, lyric dance for the audience
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as in poetic
having qualities suggestive of poetry
the film's lyric photography really enhanced its romantic mood
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Recent Examples of lyric
ABC News, 12 June 2026
The emotional high point comes at the bridge, when the song transforms into a stomp-clap rhythm and Rodrigo shouts the lyrics with abandon.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 June 2026
Jennifer Armstrong, IndieWire, 15 Apr. 2026
And through all this, Saariaho’s elaborately beautiful orchestration scintillates, jabs, caresses, and swerves, giving all that vivid misery a sheen of lyric glamour.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2026
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Noun
The band members were surprised when fans unfurled a banner emblazoned with their lyrics, singing them as a rallying cry.
—ABC News, 12 June 2026
The emotional high point comes at the bridge, when the song transforms into a stomp-clap rhythm and Rodrigo shouts the lyrics with abandon.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 June 2026
Adjective
The pandemic special is not available online, but why not queue up this lyric video version for a pick-me-up?
—Jennifer Armstrong, IndieWire, 15 Apr. 2026
And through all this, Saariaho’s elaborately beautiful orchestration scintillates, jabs, caresses, and swerves, giving all that vivid misery a sheen of lyric glamour.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lyric
Noun
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The song’s most revealing lyrics come in its second verse, when Rodrigo sings of this girl sending him poems and posting in his clothes.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
12 June 2026
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Batchelor’s poems have appeared in The Nation, Columbia Journal, cream city review, and elsewhere.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
Noun
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Singer Bradley Nowell drunk-steered his band through sordid anthems, crashing through references to classic ska and dancehall songs, shouting out Rudimentary Peni and Geto Boys, and re-setting the murder ballads and drug sprees of outlaw country in suburban California.—
Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
15 June 2026
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The piano ballad follows the dissolution of a relationship as the couple grows apart.—
Katie Simons,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
Adjective
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Jobim and Regina’s alchemical duet lives in the pantheon of great jazz performances, but even on paper, the song is a masterwork of lyrical and compositional synergy.—
Lily Goldberg,
Pitchfork,
13 June 2026
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Paired with building piano chords and a non-stop lyrical delivery, the listener gets the feeling that Rodrigo is hurtling towards something — whether that something is good or bad remains to be seen.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
12 June 2026
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From the poetic paintings, sculptures, photographs, and videos in Rashid Johnson’s Guggenheim survey to Larry Bell’s colorful new glass cubes alighting in Madison Square Park, recent presentations gave us hope for the future.—
Julie Belcove,
Robb Report,
16 June 2026
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So her first son killing the second son is also kind of poetic in that way.—
Ronda Racha Penrice,
HollywoodReporter,
15 June 2026
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That’s why people continue to write songs about it.—
Holly Gleason,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
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Amid his own songs, Styles gave the floor several times to Buckley — who arranged some of the tracks on Styles’ most recent album — to play compositions of his own.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
17 June 2026
Noun
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For centuries, spiritual hymns have kept hope alive, even more so for the enslaved.—
Ukee Washington,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
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The star players seem happy, and everyone appears to be singing from the same hymn sheet.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
Adjective
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On the basketball court, Miami Heat superstar Jimmy Butler has carved a 14-year career by gliding through space with the melodic flow of an orchestra.—
Rachel Davies,
Architectural Digest,
12 June 2026
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There has never quite been a critical or scholarly consensus about them, but Bellini, whose music is suspended somewhere between Rossini’s precise brilliance and Donizetti’s rhetorical force, can move audiences with his melodic facility.—
Arya Roshanian,
The New York Review of Books,
6 June 2026
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There are ones who are more ideological, others more poetical.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Jan. 2026
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Svelte yet heavy, Clipse’s latest sees all their phonetic and poetical gifts rendered to subtly maximal effect, with their lithe vocals cresting Pharrell’s glossy surfaces like snowfall.—
Peter A. Berry,
Variety,
11 July 2025
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“Lyric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lyric. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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