as in poetic
having qualities suggestive of poetry
love letters that were filled with poetical phrases
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Recent Examples of poetical
For armchair travelers and avid trip planners alike, Wine & Travel Italy evokes the spirit of Bel Paese (Beautiful Country), the popular poetical appellative for Italy.
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Laura Manske, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
There is a real dangerous poetical syndrome sweeping America that must be cured.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 Jan. 2024
After all these years, your name still lights a flame in the poetical mind — to set those two syllables to rhyme, to music, to anything!
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024
And Davies’ approach has always been more poetical than technical.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
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Laura Manske, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
There is a real dangerous poetical syndrome sweeping America that must be cured.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 Jan. 2024
After all these years, your name still lights a flame in the poetical mind — to set those two syllables to rhyme, to music, to anything!
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024
And Davies’ approach has always been more poetical than technical.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poetical
Adjective
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Lyric poems produce representations of poetic speakers and their ‘worlds’ hand-in-hand.—
Matthew Carey Salyer,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
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Similarly to her contemporaries, Simpson, who directed, wrote and edited No Sleep Till, tells a nonlinear story with poetic undertones.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
16 July 2025
Adjective
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Macy, who plays Arn Peeples, an explosives expert, finds lyrical beauty in an early 20th century America where the outside world is fast closing in on their traditional, pastoral way of life.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
24 July 2025
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Even the title phrase, which Francis immediately fell for, falls pretty squarely in line with classic country wordplay and lyrical imagery.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
21 July 2025
Adjective
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One More World is a sustained experiment in constructing a coherent personal register from grand forms – technical, sacrificial, mythological, memorial – and its accomplishment involves the translation of High Modernism into a lyric mode.—
Matthew Carey Salyer,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
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Filled with fierce lyric tenderness and clear-eyed commitment to revolutionary aesthetic, Terror Counter devoted to the redemption of the self from a world ready to usurp this resistance.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
24 June 2025
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“Poetical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poetical. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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