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Synonyms & Antonyms of poetic
having qualities suggestive of poetry
- your description of the sun setting over the Grand Canyon was a particularly poetic piece of writing
Synonyms for poetic
Words Related to poetic
- 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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“Poetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poetic. Accessed 19 Aug. 2022.
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The first known use of poetic was in 1500
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