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lyric
Synonyms and Antonyms of lyric
- they performed a slow, lyric dance for the audience
- the filmʼs lyric photography really enhanced its romantic mood
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)
lyric
Synonyms and Antonyms of lyric
- would you care to read your short lyric aloud?
anacreontic, clerihew, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, English sonnet, epic, epigram, epode, epopee, epos, georgic, idyll (also idyl), jingle, lament, limerick, madrigal, ode, pastoral, pastorale, psalm, rondeau, rondel (or rondelle), rondelet, sonnet, triolet, villanelle
blank verse, free verse, minstrelsy, poesy, poetry, versification, vers libre
- the guitarist sang a gentle lyric while playing
anthem, cantata, canticle, carol, chorale, hymn, noel, psalm, spiritual
dirge, lament, requiem, threnody
aria, art song, barcarole (or barcarolle), blues, chanson, chant, chantey (or chanty), chorus, croon, descant (also discant), folk song, glee, lullaby, madrigal, motet, part-song, pop, rocker, round, roundelay, serenade, standard
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