Antonyms for poetry
ˈpoʊ ɪ tripo·et·ry

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. poetrynoun

   Antonyms:
   prose

   Synonyms:
   poesy

2. poetrynoun

   The class of literature comprising poems.

   Antonyms:
   prose

   Synonyms:
   poesy

3. poetrynoun

   Composition in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns.

   Antonyms:
   prose

   Synonyms:
   poesy

4. poetrynoun

   A poet's literary production

   Antonyms:
   prose

   Synonyms:
   poesy

5. poetrynoun

   A 'poetical' quality, artistic and/or artfull, which appeals or stirs the imagination, in any medium

   That 'Swan Lake' choreography is poetry in motion, fitting the musical poetry of Tchaikovski's divine score well beyond the literary inspiration

   Synonyms:
   poesy

   Antonyms:
   prose

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. poetry

   Poetry is that form of literature that embodies beautiful thought, feeling, or action in melodious, rhythmical, and (usually) metrical language, in imaginative and artistic constructions. Poetry in a very wide sense may be anything that pleasingly addresses the imagination; as, the poetry of motion. In ordinary usage, poetry is both imaginative and metrical. There may be poetry without rime, but hardly without meter, or what in some languages takes its place, as the Hebrew parallelism; but poetry involves, besides the artistic form, the exercise of the fancy or imagination in a way always beautiful, often lofty or even sublime. Failing this, there may be verse, rime, and meter, but not poetry. There is much in literature that is beautiful and sublime in thought and artistic in construction, which is yet not poetry, because quite devoid of the element of song, whereby poetry differs from the most lofty, beautiful, or impassioned prose. Compare METER.

   Antonyms:
   prosaic speech, prosaic writing, prose

   Synonyms:
   meter, metrical composition, numbers, poem, poesy, rime, song, verse

Matched Categories

1. • Expressive Style

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. poetry, poesy, versenoun

   literature in metrical form

   Synonyms:
   poesy, verse line, verse, rhyme

2. poetrynoun

   any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling

   Synonyms:
   poesy, verse

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. poetrynoun

   Antonyms:
   prose

   Synonyms:
   verse, rhyme, poems, poesy, orthometry, versification, prosody, poetics

   Associated words:
   anthology

How to use poetry in a sentence?

1. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

   Poetry has been a source of entertainment for centuries, whether through spoken word performances, recitations, or written works.

2. Charles Baudelaire:

   Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

3. Jesse Louis Jackson:

   Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry.

4. Laura Jaworski:

   An autumn breeze, a string of words, a star-filled sky— all are poetry.

5. Percy Bysshe Shelley:

   Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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