as in poetic
having qualities suggestive of poetry
love letters that were filled with poetical phrases
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Recent Examples of poetical
There is a real dangerous poetical syndrome sweeping America that must be cured.
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 Jan. 2024
After all these years, your name still lights a flame in the poetical mind — to set those two syllables to rhyme, to music, to anything!
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024
And Davies’ approach has always been more poetical than technical.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
The Wingfield family’s repressions are bound to boil over, but they are lulled into stasis by Williams’ poetical eloquence.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 Jan. 2024
After all these years, your name still lights a flame in the poetical mind — to set those two syllables to rhyme, to music, to anything!
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024
And Davies’ approach has always been more poetical than technical.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
The Wingfield family’s repressions are bound to boil over, but they are lulled into stasis by Williams’ poetical eloquence.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poetical
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Gardner taking on Rodgers in Week 1 is just poetic.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 July 2025
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The first, located in New Orleans, had Bon Appetit's Andrew Knowlton waxing poetic over a collard green sandwich.—
Mackensy Lunsford,
The Tennessean,
2 July 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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“Poetical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poetical. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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