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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How to use poetic in a sentence?

1. Cicero:

   The freedom of poetic license.

2. Pablo Casals:

   Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

3. 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.

4. Chadi Nouri Gruber:

   Most of our competitors focus really on the romantic and poetic side of high jewelry creation, which is great because that fits their identity, we wanted to create something that fits ours. We are a rule-breaker, so we wanted to show we could do high jewelry creations ... but we can do it in a different way.

5. Randolph Silliman Bourne:

   No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.