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Synonyms for poetical

Grammar : Adj
Spell : poh-et-ik
Phonetic Transcription : poʊˈɛt ɪk

Top 10 synonyms for poetical
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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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