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lyrical
lyr·i·cal L0309000 (lĭr′ĭ-kəl)adj.1. a. Expressing deep personal emotion or observations: a dancer's lyrical performance; a lyrical passage in his autobiography.b. Highly enthusiastic; rhapsodic: gave a lyrical description of her experiences in the South Seas.2. Lyric.
lyr′i·cal·ly adv.lyr′i·cal·ness n.lyrical (ˈlɪrɪkəl) adj1. (Music, other) another word for lyric1, lyric2, lyric3, lyric42. (Poetry) another word for lyric1, lyric2, lyric3, lyric43. enthusiastic; effusive (esp in the phrase to wax lyrical)Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | lyrical - suitable for or suggestive of singingmelodic, melodious, musical - containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody; "the melodious song of a meadowlark" | | 2. | lyrical - expressing deep emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance"lyricemotional - of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional" |
Translationslyrical
wax lyricalTo speak about something enthusiastically, especially by employing elegant language; to rhapsodize. It was a nice feeling when Dana waxed lyrical about the dinner I made, describing it as "sublimely scrumptious." If you're going to be a salesman, you're going to have to learn how to wax lyrical about the most mundane products to make them sound like must-haves.See also: lyrical, waxwax lyrical about something If you wax lyrical about a subject, you talk about it in an enthusiastic way. He waxed lyrical about the skills and commitment of his employees.See also: lyrical, something, waxwax lyrical about (or over) talk in an effusive or enthusiastic way about something. Wax (from Old English weaxan ) was used to mean ‘increase in size’ right through until early modern English, but since then it has been superseded in all general contexts by grow . It now survives only in certain expressions, especially with reference to the moon's monthly increase and decrease (waxing and waning ). 1998 New Scientist Even as they wax lyrical about the perils of a changing climate, Clinton and Gore are presiding over the most massive expansion of oil exploration and drilling since…the Trans-Alaska Pipeline twenty years ago. See also: lyrical, waxwax ˈlyrical (about something) (written) talk or write about something with enthusiasm: He began to wax lyrical about the new car he would buy with his earnings.See also: lyrical, waxEncyclopediaSeelyriclyrical
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