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POETIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by romantic imagery
Example:
Turner's vision of the rainbow...was poetic
Classified under:
Similar:
figurative; nonliteral ((used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech)
Derivation:
poetry (any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characteristic of or befitting poetry
Example:
poetic diction
Synonyms:
poetic; poetical
Classified under:
Similar:
rhetorical (given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought)
Derivation:
poetry (any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or relating to poetry
Example:
a poetic romance
Synonyms:
poetic; poetical
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
poetry (literature in metrical form)
Derivation:
poetry (any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Of or relating to poets
Example:
poetic insight
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Derivation:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
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