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
The bus’s journey intertwines with the artist’s journey to the U.S. as an unaccompanied, undocumented minor, inspiring a poetic reflection of trauma and healing.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
Hazel: Hazel has a timeless quality that feels poetic.
—Kara Nesvig, Parents, 17 June 2025
But behind the soaring choruses and poetic lyrics was a band — and a frontman — navigating the dizzying highs and heavy costs of fame.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 16 June 2025
Wales Bonner’s Spring 2026 menswear show felt like a slow walk on familiar ground, calm, poetic, and deeply personal.
—Karissa Mitchell, Essence, 25 June 2025
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
Hazel: Hazel has a timeless quality that feels poetic.
—Kara Nesvig, Parents, 17 June 2025
But behind the soaring choruses and poetic lyrics was a band — and a frontman — navigating the dizzying highs and heavy costs of fame.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 16 June 2025
Wales Bonner’s Spring 2026 menswear show felt like a slow walk on familiar ground, calm, poetic, and deeply personal.
—Karissa Mitchell, Essence, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poetic
Adjective
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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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In addition, for this film, drinking heart blood had physical, poetical appeal.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Featuring 270 works, including 160 never before seen, this exhibition that was two years in the making invites audiences on a multi-sensory journey that mixes sculpture, painting, scent, light, sound, dance and poetry into a lyrical universe shaped by love and transformation.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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For many across America, Abt was the voice and conscience of cycling, with his lyrical prose weaving the tale of the Tour across the Atlantic Ocean.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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Filled with fierce lyric tenderness and clear-eyed commitment to revolutionary aesthetic, Terror Counter devoted to the redemption of the self from a world ready to usurp this resistance.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
24 June 2025
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Apple also doubled down on games, added new features, including lyric translation to Apple Music, and introduced new options for its Vision Pro headset, among other things.—
Michele Luhn,
CNBC,
10 June 2025
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“Poetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poetic. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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