poetic
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4.5
- adjective
- /poʊˈɛtɪk/
- Literature
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poético
- And it just, it's just this beautiful poetic expression of the human experience.
- poetic language
- poetic expression
- a poetic voice
There's got to be some poetic way of expressing that.
- There's got to be some poetic way of expressing that.
- Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
- And I think he's like a very poetic soul, you know, lost.
- It's a tiny little book, a dense, poetic little novel.
- So maybe that's not maybe that's a very poetic way to think.
- And it just, it's just this beautiful poetic expression of the human experience.
- It could come down to writing poetic and lyrical action lines.
- I think it's just a beautiful poetic work of art.
- It's it's a very beautiful, poetic way of putting it.
- And that's not nearly as poetic and probably not what that Roman poet meant.
- Is Tolia doing like this poetic metaphor, trying to speak to Weiland?
- What this means as a symbol is kind of poetic.
- Well, I think as the statue of Odin shows, the poetic and the genocidal can coexist.
- Now he thinks that melancholy, like you said, is the most legitimate of the poetic tones.
Examples
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It's a tiny little book, a dense, poetic little novel.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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I think it's just a beautiful poetic work of art.
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It's incredible, it's poetic, it's the perfect crime.
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Actually, it's a deeply poetic line we can talk about.
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To you, my dear, shall go the honor of starting this poetic drama.
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The movie is a defense, at the same time, of poetic genius and popular culture.
Academic text (1999) -
Drawing on memory and lived experience, I explore poetic connections between mothers and daughters.
Fiction book (1995) -
There's got to be some poetic way of expressing that.
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The artist's painting captured a poetic vision of nature's beauty.
Synonyms
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4.9
Expressing deep personal feeling like a song
3
6.5
Showing beauty, imagination, and strong feeling
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5.9
Using strong words that make clear scenes in the mind
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5.9
Showing deep personal feelings in a beautiful songlike way
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
8
4.9
A result where bad people get punished and good people are rewarded in a fitting way
- Literature
2
6.7
Freedom a writer or artist takes to change facts to make a story stronger
- Literature
A pattern of strong and weak beats in a poem that makes it sound musical
How Poetic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Poetic comes from poet, which comes from the old Greek verb poiein meaning 'to make'. So a poet is a 'maker' of words, and something poetic feels carefully made, beautiful, and full of feeling.