poetical
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6.5
- adjective
- /poʊˈɛtɪkəl/
- Literature
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poético
- She expressed her emotions in a poetical manner through her writing.
- Poetical Works
- Poetical Language
- rhetorical and poetical
It's between prose poetry and flash fiction or flash poetical fiction in a way.
- It's between prose poetry and flash fiction or flash poetical fiction in a way.
- And so Ada's mother had Ada tutored only in mathematics, hoping it would prevent her from being poetical.
- And I was like, OK, but it was like nurture, I guess the creative artistic side, the just like pondering and poetical and things that I hadn't.
Examples
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The view across your rooftop is so poetical.
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Another said it was truly historical and poetical, an accumulation of the grand in nature and art.
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And it's done in a very poetical way in the movie that you saw.
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The point is, when you get to be my age, the view becomes less poetical in relationship to other aspects of living here.
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But even new objects had a poetical kind of ruined quality for Howard.
Academic text (1993) -
The death therefore, of a beautiful girl ... is unquestionly the most poetical topic in the world.
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And when is this most tragic of melancholy topics... most poetical?
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Coles was offering, to use Frost's terms, a "proper poetical education."
Academic text (2017) -
What I am pointing out is that unless you are at home in the metaphor, unless you have had your proper poetical education in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere.
Academic text (2017) -
The word forever is poetical in the sense that Kenneth Koch, my Columbia professor, scorned.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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4.5
Having the beauty and strong feeling of poems
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4.9
Expressing deep personal feeling like a song
1
5.9
Showing deep personal feelings in a beautiful songlike way
Antonyms
How Poetic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Poetical comes from poet, the same root as poetry, and from an old Greek word meaning 'maker' or 'creator'. Poets 'make' language into pictures and feelings, so something poetical has the beauty, imagination, or emotion of poetry.