Synonyms for poetic
poʊˈɛt ɪkpo·et·ic

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. poeticadjective

   Antonyms:
   prosaic

2. poeticadjective

   Antonyms:
   prosaic

3. poeticadjective

   Antonyms:
   prosaic

4. poeticadjective

   Antonyms:
   prosaic

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.6 / 5 votes

1. poetic, poeticaladjective

   of or relating to poetry

   "poetic works"; "a poetic romance"

   Synonyms:
   poetical

   Antonyms:
   literal, unrhetorical

2. poeticadjective

   characterized by romantic imagery

   "Turner's vision of the rainbow...was poetic"

   Synonyms:
   poetical

   Antonyms:
   unrhetorical, literal

3. poeticadjective

   of or relating to poets

   "poetic insight"

   Synonyms:
   poetical

   Antonyms:
   literal, unrhetorical

4. poetic, poeticaladjective

   characteristic of or befitting poetry

   "poetic diction"

   Synonyms:
   poetical

   Antonyms:
   literal, unrhetorical

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. poeticadjective

   Synonyms:
   metrical

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "poetic":

   poetry, poet, righteous

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1. John Cho:

   Fans saved Star Trek back in the day and they sort of invented fandom and invented conventions, fan conventions so it seems poetic that we end up here on the 50th anniversary so to bring it straight to the fans who have given us our lives and our livelihood, comic Con is the ultimate playground for someone that's a fan boy or girl.

2. Francis Alys ':

   I had to kind of squeeze it. and it's maybe the reason why the end result is a 'fable'. I stayed within the frame of something that is not a historical approach it's a much more poetic approach. If anything maybe too poetic, within the circumstances. But it's what came out over that short time.

3. Fran Lebowitz:

   If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

4. Umberto Eco:

   I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

5. Bari Weiss:

   I’m a newspaper woman without a newspaper. A way less poetic way to say that is that I’m one of those people that maybe you’ve been reading about, who left a big fancy media company to start a newsletter on Substack and now, I know, just what the world needed, another podcast.