poetical
/pəʊˈɛtɪk(ə)l
/adjective
1Relating to poetry: a poetical genius...
- The drama is well conceived and executed, but here also he follows another poetical master, Ben Jonson.
- He was a large poetical contributor to <i>Blackwood's Magazine</i>.
- It contains some pointed satire on the author's poetical contemporaries.
1.1Written in verse rather than prose: the author of numerous poetical compositions...
- The poetical miscellanies, compiled for pleasure, were filled with an apparently random collection of poetry.
- The trauma acted as an impulse to her poetical compositions.
- The prize amounted to 500 lire and a copy of d'Annunzio's complete poetical works.
1.2Having an imaginative or sensitively emotional style of expression: highly poetical forms of speech...
- He describes the prolific misuse of poetical language by his contemporaries.
- In England in the 1590s, poetical lovemaking seems to have become a kind of epidemic.
- It is no longer the subject of art or of thought: they have no poetical power today, I think.
Rhymes
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- Action Man
- action noun
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