UNLYRICAL Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

unlyrical

adjective

Definition of unlyrical

as in prose

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as in jarring

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Adjective

Breton’s often tortuous and highly idiomatic prose style presents an enormous challenge to translators.

— Susan Rubin Suleiman, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
The result is a genre of prose writing that continues to shock, titillate and entertain.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 June 2026

Definition of prose

Adjective

Whiplash highlights the fast and often erratic steering, in this case of the organization, and the resulting abrupt, jarring change in mood, emotional state and sense of stability.

— Liz Guthridge, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Your husband’s abandonment was surely jarring, painful, and confusing.

— R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of jarring

Adjective

We are made loving, good, and pure – entirely free from any inharmonious tendency.

— Margaret Rogers, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Apr. 2026
Setting Discordant Personal Goals A 2023 study published in Current Psychology finds that partners’ inharmonious goals can have detrimental effects on relationships.

— Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024

Definition of inharmonious

Adjective

Those songs remind Omara of real people and real events, political interludes whose senselessness and brutality have left unmusical lacunae in her life.

— Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
His parents were unmusical Russian-Jewish immigrants who ran various businesses with mixed success.

— The Economist, The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019

Definition of unmusical

Adjective

In lesser hands, Diablo Cody’s Rolodex of quirky zingers could come across more grating than endearing.

— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 19 July 2026
But her voice in the actual album mixes is less grating than the singles’ mixes imply, and the lyrics understand what’s cool and also overbearing about her overarching persona.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 6 July 2026

Definition of grating

Adjective

Third, the family might have a strident belief that AI will aid their individual and collective challenges, serve each member, and yet also aid the family unit as a whole.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Over the past 10 years, the misogyny of the manosphere has become more open and strident, but the big innovation seems to have been combining that conspiratorial misogyny with earnest self-help advice.

— Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026

Definition of strident

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