Poetic Synonyms and Antonyms

pō-ĕtĭk
Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of poetry
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. poetical
  2. lyric
  3. dramatic
  4. idyllic
  5. lyrical
  6. epical
  7. odic
  8. romantic
  9. imaginative
  10. metrical
  11. rhythmical
  12. tuneful
  13. melodious
  14. epodic
  15. elegiac
  16. epic
  17. beautiful
  18. iambic
  19. dactylic
  20. spondaic
  21. trochaic
  22. dreamy
  23. anapestic
  24. heliconian
  25. parnassian
  26. pierian
  27. ionic
  28. sapphic
  29. alcaic
  30. pindaric
  31. Dircaean
  32. rhapsodic
  33. dipodic
  34. rhythmic
Antonyms:
  1. prosaic
  2. unpoetical
  3. unimaginative

Words Related to Poetic

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Poetic Sentence Examples

  • Maybe it was poetic justice that her soul was doomed.

  • It shows me that I could express my appreciation of beautiful and poetic ideas in clear and animated language.

  • He has a humorous and poetic side, too.

  • Cooking was then, for the most part, no longer a poetic, but merely a chemic process.

  • Again poetic justice is effected on the unfortunate hero who has chosen his own personal advancement in preference to his duty to the woman he loves; more pointedly than in Gotz is the moral enforced by Clavigo's worldly friend Carlos, that the ground of Clavigo's tragic end lies not so much in the defiance of a moral law as in the hero's vacillation and want of character.

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