poetically
5
5.3
- adverb
- /poʊˈɛtɪkli/
- Literature
:
poéticamente
- In his speech, he described love poetically, capturing its beauty and complexity.
The idea that it carries part of you to impale on its tree of souls was sort of poetically frightening to me.
- The idea that it carries part of you to impale on its tree of souls was sort of poetically frightening to me.
- I mean, I can wax poetically about what downsize material possessions have.
- It is so poetically beautiful the way that this woman can put feelings in admiration for somebody into words such as these.
- It's early evening and the skies poetically blameless grey, fills your throat with a thick despair so familiar to the heavily indebted.
Examples
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Fanon puts it more poetically: "Without a Negro past, without a Negro future, I could not live my Negrohood."
Academic text (1994) -
In this way, the "lungs of the economy," poetically mentioned by a miller in Ndouci, could breathe more deeply.
Academic text (2009) -
And as they say, sort of poetically, students do not leave their rights at the school door.
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And if you want to think about it poetically, we are connected to each other as humans and to the planet through the toilet.
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More poetically than even I could have hoped.
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But I think it does something, poetically and emotionally, for our understanding of Briony, that I think is really, really important.
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It is so poetically beautiful the way that this woman can put feelings in admiration for somebody into words such as these.
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Dante uses the idea of fatherhood poetically as a central principle of order.
Academic text (1991) -
But given the reality Olalquiaga describes, this dizzying pace seems poetically appropriate.
Academic text (1996) -
No one waxes more elegantly or poetically on the joys, pleasures, and indeed the challenges of reading.
Blog text (30)
Synonyms
233
1.0
In a way that looks or sounds very nice
41
3.5
In a way that uses new ideas to make things or solve problems
22
3.9
In a graceful and stylish way
19
3.9
In a way that shows skill and creativity in art
7
5.1
In a way that shows strong feeling like a poem
7
5.7
In a creative, skillful way that shows careful planning
5
3.5
In a very beautiful and impressive way
2
4.1
In a creative way that uses new ideas
1
3.4
To speak or write in a vivid way that makes stories feel alive
1
7.2
In a way that makes a place look like a painting
Antonyms
How Poetic
- Literature
3
6.8
7
5.1
- Literature
5
5.3
1
3.7
110
1.0
68
1.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word poetically comes from poet, which comes from the Greek poietes meaning 'maker' or 'author'. So, to speak or write poetically is to 'make' words in a beautiful, imaginative way, like someone who writes poetry.