Synonyms for poetical

Grammar : Adj

Spell : poh-et-ik

Phonetic Transcription : poʊˈɛt ɪk

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Définition of poetical

Origin : 1520s, from poet + -ic, or else from or influenced by Middle French poetique (c.1400), from Latin poeticus, from Greek poietikos "pertaining to poetry," literally "creative, productive," from poietos "made," verbal adjective of poiein "to make" (see poet). Related: Poetics (1727). Poetic justice "ideal justice as portrayed in plays and stories" is from 1670s. Poetic license attested by 1733.
Earlier adjective was poetical (late 14c.); also obsolete poetly (mid-15c.). Related: Poetically (early 15c.).

adj poetic

Example sentences :

His justice is all poetical justice, exactly what justice should be.
Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde

When I say for ever, I mean (though I am not poetical) through all our time.'
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

But this, like many other literary associations, is a piece of poetical injustice.
Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton

Your experience of the everyday language of the common people may be that it is not poetical.
Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald

That glow of enthusiasm for labor was chiefly moral, but it was poetical as well.
Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry

This is not any sort of poetical statement; it is a statement of fact.
Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley

My sweet friend, not quite so poetical, and a little more particular.
Extract from : « The Contrast » by Royall Tyler

In Columbus were singularly combined the practical and the poetical.
Extract from : « Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia » by Various

All of them are rhetorical and poetical rather than dialectical, but glimpses of truth appear in them.
Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato

There is less of poetical and simple beauty, and more of dramatic interest and power.
Extract from : « Laches » by Plato

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