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
And finally the fellas wax poetic about winter caravans gone by and whatever happened to the exploding Winnebago from the 1980s.
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Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 6 Feb. 2026
Amid the nods to social media and cancel culture and the shallow perils of modern celebrity, the image of Taylor-Joy’s disciplined group of insurgents, who speak in almost archaic, poetic dialogue, strikes a bracing contrast.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2026
Throughout his career, his cinematic accomplishments have challenged audiences with their epic, poetic and humanitarian angles.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 5 Feb. 2026
Her deeply poetic and very personal songs alongside her unique style of playing guitar traversed multiple musical genres, including pop, rock and jazz.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026
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Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 6 Feb. 2026
Amid the nods to social media and cancel culture and the shallow perils of modern celebrity, the image of Taylor-Joy’s disciplined group of insurgents, who speak in almost archaic, poetic dialogue, strikes a bracing contrast.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2026
Throughout his career, his cinematic accomplishments have challenged audiences with their epic, poetic and humanitarian angles.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 5 Feb. 2026
Her deeply poetic and very personal songs alongside her unique style of playing guitar traversed multiple musical genres, including pop, rock and jazz.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poetic
Adjective
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There are ones who are more ideological, others more poetical.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Jan. 2026
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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
Adjective
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Adler’s version, as elegant and lyrical as Fisher’s, enumerates ways to use every last scrap, bone, and core—and introduced her as a writer who made art out of the marginal.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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The album leaned heavily into acoustics with an emphasis on lyrical content.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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For now, Google continues to frame lyric limits as a test.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Feb. 2026
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In the Summer Games from 1912 to 1948, musicians, painters, and plenty of other aesthetes went brain-to-brain in events such as lyric poetry and chamber music.—
Drew Goins,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Poetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poetic. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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