poetic

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of POETIC

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

Synonyms bardic, lyric, lyrical, poetical, poeticized

Related Words metrical (or metric), rhyming (also riming), rhythmic (or rhythmical); rhapsodic (also rhapsodical); florid, flowery, grandiloquent, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-flown, ornate, purple; glamorized (also glamourized), idealized, romanticized; figurative, metaphoric (or metaphorical), symbolic (also symbolical)

Near Antonyms factual, literal, matter-of-fact; antipoetic

Antonyms prosaic, prose, unlyrical, unpoetic

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