Poetic synonyms
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Part of speech:
Dealing with or characterized by events of historical or legendary importance
Expressed in metrical form; exhibiting the imaginative or the rhythmical quality of poetry.
Lyrical.
Extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque.
Full of tune; melodious.
epodic
Pertaining to or resembling an epode.
Sad; mournful; plaintive
odic
Of or pertaining to odes.
epical
Of or pertaining to epic literature; epic; having qualities of epics.
Imaginative but impractical; visionary:
Having such characteristics of a drama as conflict or suspense
Of or made up of iambs
dactylic
Of or made up of dactyls
spondaic
Of, relating to, or consisting of spondees.
trochaic
Of or made up of trochees
anapestic
Of, or relating to, one of the distinct beats in a (human?) heartbeat pattern.
heliconian
parnassian
Of or relating to the Parnassianism movement of French poetry in the years 1850 to 1900, whose adherents rejected Romanticism and instead favored classicism with its formal structure and emotional detachment.
pierian
Of Pieria, where the Muses were anciently worshiped
Of Ionic (the language variety)
sapphic
Of, relating to, or being a verse, stanza, or poem in accentual-syllabic meter composed in imitation of Sapphic quantitative verse.
alcaic
Of Alcaeus or in the form of his verse
pindaric
Designating an ode having two metrical forms, one for the strophe and antistrophe and another for the epode
Dircaean
Of or resulting from imagination
Of, resembling, or characteristic of a rhapsody.
dipodic
Consisting of two metrical feet.
unpoetical (antonym)
unimaginative (antonym)
prosaic (antonym)
Having qualities that delight or appeal to the senses and often the mind.
Soothing and serene.
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