as in poetical
having qualities suggestive of poetry
your description of the sun setting over the Grand Canyon was a particularly poetic piece of writing
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Recent Examples of poetic
But Hynes details life’s vicissitudes with poetic exactitude.
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Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
Semi-autobiographical in one sense and despondently poetic in the other, The Stranger launched Camus’ career as a major 20th century author.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
This is boutique travel at its most poetic, a seamless blend of cultural immersion, fine dining, and slow luxury.
—Jennifer Schwartz, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2025
That’s not just because of the tragic weight of the material, but because the picture reimagines the poetic act of creating Hamlet.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
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Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
Semi-autobiographical in one sense and despondently poetic in the other, The Stranger launched Camus’ career as a major 20th century author.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
This is boutique travel at its most poetic, a seamless blend of cultural immersion, fine dining, and slow luxury.
—Jennifer Schwartz, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2025
That’s not just because of the tragic weight of the material, but because the picture reimagines the poetic act of creating Hamlet.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poetic
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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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Through the map, like the ship, Pace argues, time, space, and place are linked to cultural, personal, poetical, and political memory.—
Abby Clayton,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Apr. 2025
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For three-quarters of its pages, the book reads like a paean to dope, a lyrical testament to the transcendent bliss of the first time using, and to the futile effort to recapture it.—
Scott Stossel,
The Atlantic,
9 Sep. 2025
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Busta also received an assist from Papoose and Joyner Lucas, all of them sharing lyrical wordplay and seamless tradeoffs as Busta swung between his trademark dichotomy of rapping to gruff bellowing.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
8 Sep. 2025
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The lyric change brought immediate screams inside Estadio River Plate and across the Swift world.—
Doha Madani,
NBC news,
26 Aug. 2025
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This is why Dijon’s language works best as sound, not narrative—his rangy, raspy voice seethes and triumphs, mocks and threatens; there’s no world in which his polygonal perspective can be discerned from a lyric sheet.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Poetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poetic. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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