Synonyms for poetic
poʊˈɛt ɪkpo·et·ic

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. poeticadjective

   Antonyms:
   prosaic

2. poeticadjective

   Antonyms:
   prosaic

3. poeticadjective

   Antonyms:
   prosaic

4. poeticadjective

   Antonyms:
   prosaic

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.6 / 5 votes

1. poetic, poeticaladjective

   of or relating to poetry

   "poetic works"; "a poetic romance"

   Synonyms:
   poetical

   Antonyms:
   literal, unrhetorical

2. poeticadjective

   characterized by romantic imagery

   "Turner's vision of the rainbow...was poetic"

   Synonyms:
   poetical

   Antonyms:
   unrhetorical, literal

3. poeticadjective

   of or relating to poets

   "poetic insight"

   Synonyms:
   poetical

   Antonyms:
   literal, unrhetorical

4. poetic, poeticaladjective

   characteristic of or befitting poetry

   "poetic diction"

   Synonyms:
   poetical

   Antonyms:
   literal, unrhetorical

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. poeticadjective

   Synonyms:
   metrical

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "poetic":

   poetry, poet, righteous

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1. Bari Weiss:

   I’m a newspaper woman without a newspaper. A way less poetic way to say that is that I’m one of those people that maybe you’ve been reading about, who left a big fancy media company to start a newsletter on Substack and now, I know, just what the world needed, another podcast.

2. Spiegel Grau:

   Prince is a towering figure in global culture and his music has been the soundtrack for untold numbers of people — including me — for more than a generation; his creative genius has provided the musical landscape of our lives, millions of words have been written about Prince — books and articles, essays and criticism — but we're thrilled to be publishing Prince's powerful reflections on his own life in his own incandescently vivid, witty, and poetic voice.

3. Meghan McCain:

   You're talking about Donald Trump supporters, comparing them to Nazis in Nuremberg, that sounds extreme to me as well, when Democrats come on here and wax poetic about extremism -- I'm not saying Donald Trump isn't doing it, but you're calling everybody who was in North Carolina rally a Nazi.

4. Umberto Eco:

   I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

5. David Edwards:

   I had started a company called Pulmatrix. We would do nebulization for drug delivery, and I thought, What would it take to make that a satisfying taste experience? the Whif was very important for me in that it seemed the most poetic and the least practical approach, and yet it fascinated people and fascinated me, and my work now in scent delivery was highly influenced by that.