lyrical
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4.9
- adjective
- /ˈlɪrɪkəl/
:
lírico
- The novel's lyrical prose painted vivid images of love and loss.
- lyrical intensity
- lyrical description
- highly lyrical
It could come down to writing poetic and lyrical action lines.
- It could come down to writing poetic and lyrical action lines.
- Soothing is the beat that melts the heart of so many lyrical works of art.
- I just and, and, and again, not to be too waxing lyrical about the value of football clubs.
- And I wanted to make British music that was as lyrical as the American Music that I made.
- So that's like the Godfrey Reggio films, the Quiana Scott, see those films, they're very lyrical.
- I love her, I do, but sometimes it gets a little vague just because Hafsa tends to go more like lyrical in her storytelling.
- But if you sit down and just start putting ideas, musical or lyrical otherwise, into the world and you you kind of log them.
- And, and I thought, well, if I really want a sensitive lyrical thing, I think I need to loosen my grip on the guitar.
- I feel like more than anyone taught me kind of what an essay could be and how to write, and that you could be deeply lyrical and deeply political.
- No guns, nobody got shot right, Lyrical songs, right.
- I got some problems, some of the lyrical choices.
Examples
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A violinist then added a lyrical melody above the repeating rhythmic patterns.
Academic text (2015) -
Soothing is the beat that melts the heart of so many lyrical works of art.
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And I wanted to make British music that was as lyrical as the American Music that I made.
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On the other hand, there is a lyrical quality.
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I am convinced that God is love; such a thought has a basic, lyrical truth for me.
Fiction book (1996) -
And then you get that sort of lyrical moment of interpretation.
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There I was thinking you were about to wax lyrical about the romance of flight.
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I feel like more than anyone taught me kind of what an essay could be and how to write, and that you could be deeply lyrical and deeply political.
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In "Rock Our Faces Off 222" we listen to the music and lyrical angst of a lost generation.
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One of Aristotle's most lyrical and famous passages both describes the enterprise and provides the criteria for it.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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4.5
Having the beauty and strong feeling of poems
32
4.5
Having deep feelings that move people
3
6.5
Showing beauty, imagination, and strong feeling
1
5.9
Showing deep personal feelings in a beautiful songlike way
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6.8
Having a clear tune and pleasant musical rhythm
Showing strong feelings that make people feel sad or moved
A sound that is clear and pleasant like someone singing
Having a clear tune like someone singing
How Lyrical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lyrical comes from the old word lyre, a small harp used to accompany 'songs', and from lyric, which means the words of a song. That's why something lyrical feels like a personal song — full of strong feeling or a song-like quality.