Classical Synonyms and Antonyms

klăsĭ-kəl
Of or resembling the art or culture of ancient Greece or Rome
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. classic
  2. chaste
  3. greek
  4. ancient
  5. roman
  6. academic
  7. latin
  8. hellenic
  9. humanistic
  10. attic
  11. archetypal
  12. homeric
  13. archetypic
  14. archetypical
  15. ciceronian
  16. augustan
  17. virgilian
  18. model
  19. correct
  20. formal
  21. paradigmatic
  22. elegant
  23. classicistic
  24. refined
  25. prototypal
  26. restrained
  27. balanced
  28. prototypic
  29. well-proportioned
  30. prototypical
  31. archaic
  32. masterly
  33. quintessential
  34. neoclassic
  35. pure
  36. hellenistic
  37. representative
  38. alexandrian
  39. greco-roman
  40. typic
  41. scholastic
  42. typical
  43. simple
  44. standard
  45. graeco-roman
  46. traditional
Antonyms:
  1. modern
Traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. classical-music
  2. serious music

Words Related to Classical

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. good
  2. same
  3. usual
  4. contemporary
  5. baroque
  6. neo-classicism
  7. serialism
  8. renaissance
  9. classicism
  10. literary
  11. modernist
  12. avant-garde
  13. neo-classical
  14. non-classical
  15. vocal-music

Classical Sentence Examples

  • Do you like classical music?

  • He played that boom, boom, boom classical music all the time.

  • He felt then, and still more after the Reform Act of 1866, that "we must educate our masters," 1 and he rather scandalized his old university friends by the stress he laid on physical science as opposed to classical studies.

  • Richard Strauss, in his edition of Berlioz's works on Instrumentation, paradoxically characterizes the classical orchestral style as that which was derived from chamber-music. Now it, is true that in Haydn's early days orchestras were small and generally private; and that the styles of orchestral and chamber music were not distinct; but surely nothing is clearer than that the whole history of the rise of classical chamber-music lies in its rapid differentiation from the coarse-grained orchestral style with which it began.

  • Lever's grammar school, founded in 1641, had Robert Ainsworth, the Latin lexicographer, and John Lempriere, author of the classical dictionary, among its masters.

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