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| Main Entry: | poetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | with rhythm and beauty; related to poetic composition |
| Synonyms: | dramatic, elegiac, epic, idyllic, imaginative, lyric, lyrical, melodious, romantic, tuneful, anapestic, dactylic, epical, epodic, iambic, metrical, odic, rhythmical, songlike |
| Antonyms: | prosaic |
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| Main Entry: | fanciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, romantic |
| Synonyms: | absurd, aerial, bizarre, capricious, chimerical, curious, dreamlike, extravagant, fabulous, fantastic, fictitious, flaky*, floating, ideal, illusory, imaginative, imagined, incredible, kinky*, legendary, mythical, offbeat, on cloud nine*, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, poetic, preposterous, shadowy, unreal, visionary, whimsical, wild, blue sky, castles in the air, fairy-tale, fancied, fantastical, fictional, fictive, notional, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | grave, ordinary, real, serious, sincere, unimaginative, unfanciful, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative, inventive |
| Synonyms: | artistic, avant-garde, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, high-flown*, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, poetic, productive, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary, vivid, way out, whimsical, blue-sky, brain wave, breaking ground, fictive, originative, pie-in-the-sky, poetical |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
| Antonyms: | dull, unimaginative, uncreative, uninventive, unresourceful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lyric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | musical |
| Synonyms: | mellifluous, melodic, melodious, poetic, tuneful, choral, coloratura, songful, songlike |
| Main Entry: | lyrical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | musical |
| Synonyms: | agreeable, dulcet, emotional, euphonious, expressive, harmonious, melodic, melodious, orchestral, passionate, pleasing, poetic, rhapsodic, rhythmic, soulful, symphonic, tuneful, blending, chiming, choral, lilting, operatic, songful, songlike, sweet-sounding, symphonious |
| Main Entry: | romantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental, idealistic |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, amorous, charming, chimerical, chivalrous, colorful, corny*, daring, dreamy, enchanting, erotic, exciting, exotic, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fascinating, fond, glamorous, idyllic, impractical, loving, maudlin, mushy*, mysterious, nostalgic, passionate, picturesque, poetic, quixotic, sloppy*, starry-eyed, tender, unrealistic, utopian, visionary, whimsical, wild, bathetic, fairy-tale, lovey-dovey, soppy, syrupy, tear-jerking |
| Antonyms: | pragmatic, realistic, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | artistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, satisfying to senses |
| Synonyms: | aesthetic, creative, cultured, decorative, dramatic, elegant, exquisite, fine, graceful, grand, harmonious, ideal, imaginative, musical, ornamental, picturesque, pleasing, poetic, refined, sensitive, stimulating, stylish, sublime, tasteful, cultivated, pictorial, rhythmical |
| Antonyms: | distasteful, horrible, inelegant, ugly |
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| Main Entry: | coercion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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pungent, bold, coactive, coercive, compelled, compelling, compulsatory, compulsive, compulsory, dynamic, dynamical, elevated, eloquent, expostulatory, forceful, forcible, full of point, glowing, impassioned, impressive, incisive, ineluctable, inexorable, intercessory, irresistible, lively, lofty, mediatorial, nervous, obligatory, peremptory, petulant, piquant, pithy, poetic, pointed, powerful, protested, pulsive, racy, sensational, slashing, sparkling, spirited, stringent, sublime, trenchant, vehement, vigorous
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| Main Entry: | philosophy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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sound, a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, analytic, antiestablishment, biconditional, card, circular, corporeal, discursive, domestic, empirical, heuristic, immanent, indisputable, invalid, irrefragable, irrefutable, maieutic, middle, partisan, poetic, political, rational, reactionary, transeunt, ultraconservative, undemocratic, valid, vice versa, zetetic
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| Main Entry: | poetry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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