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1
having a pleasantly flowing quality suggestive of music
- the lyrical cadences of voice-over narration give the film a very poignant quality
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having qualities suggestive of poetry
- the photographer achieves a very lyrical effect with her intentionally blurred images of flowers growing in the wild
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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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“Lyrical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lyrical. Accessed 28 Oct. 2021.
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The first known use of lyrical was in 1581
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