POETIC Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

poetic

adjective

pō-ˈe-tik

Definition of poetic

as in poetical

having qualities suggestive of poetry your description of the sun setting over the Grand Canyon was a particularly poetic piece of writing

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Recent Examples of poetic Dolly Parton, the country music icon whose poetic lyrics spoke to the American experience, died Tuesday, her family announced. — Eva Andersen, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026 Rooted in raw reality but told through poetic fiction, James Baldwin’s masterwork attends a day in the life of 14-year-old John Grimes and the awakenings, histories, and stories that shape his life. — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026 This film weaves that footage with new images of his exile, a poetic documentary essay that refuses the urgency of breaking news. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026 Combining archival and original footage, and blurring the categories of documentary essay and the poetic avant-garde, Pelechian’s visionary works revolve around a grand recurring theme of humankind’s tumultuous relationship to the natural world. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for poetic

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There are ones who are more ideological, others more poetical.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026
Svelte yet heavy, Clipse’s latest sees all their phonetic and poetical gifts rendered to subtly maximal effect, with their lithe vocals cresting Pharrell’s glossy surfaces like snowfall.

— Peter A. Berry, Variety, 11 July 2025

Definition of poetical

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Borges may not be able to see the scenery, but delights in every scrap of local color, to a degree that the American — tasked with describing everything to his elder, in suitably lyrical terms — finds quite wearisome.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 29 Aug. 2026
Angus Young has repeated in interviews over the years that all this imagery and lyrical content about hell and the devil was pure tongue-in-cheek theatrics and nothing more.

— Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of lyrical

Adjective

Madonna asked the crowd — before the studio version rolled out in the days that followed, complete with lyric videos featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the Amsterdam event.

— Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026
Watch a lyric video, assembled from Super 8 footage of Prine on a family vacation in the early 1970s, below.

— Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 23 July 2026

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