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Synonyms & Antonyms of poetical
having qualities suggestive of poetry
- love letters that were filled with poetical phrases
Synonyms for poetical
Words Related to poetical
- 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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The first known use of poetical was in the 15th century
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