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poetic

po·et·ic
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [poh-et-ik]
    • /poʊˈɛt ɪk/
    • /pəʊˈet.ɪk/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [poh-et-ik]
    • /poʊˈɛt ɪk/

Definitions of poetic word

  • adjective poetic possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature. 1
  • adjective poetic of or relating to a poet or poets. 1
  • adjective poetic characteristic of or befitting a poet: poetic feeling; poetic insight. 1
  • adjective poetic endowed with the faculty or feeling of a poet: a poetic eulogist. 1
  • adjective poetic having or showing the sensibility of a poet: a poetic lover. 1
  • adjective poetic of or relating to poetry: poetic literature. 1

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Origin of poetic

First appearance:

before 1520
One of the 28% oldest English words
1520-30; < Latin poēticus < Greek poiētikós. See poet, -ic

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Parts of speech for Poetic

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

poetic popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 92% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

poetic usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for poetic

adj poetic

  • artistic — Someone who is artistic is good at drawing or painting, or arranging things in a beautiful way.
  • avantgarde — the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.
  • blue sky — fanciful; impractical: blue-sky ideas.
  • blue-sky — of or denoting theoretical research without regard to any future application of its result
  • brain wave — any of the fluctuations of electrical potential in the brain as represented on an electroencephalogram. They vary in frequency from 1 to 30 hertz

adjective poetic

  • alliterative — Alliterative means relating to or connected with alliteration.
  • anapestic — a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, as in for the nonce.
  • dactylic — of, relating to, or having a dactyl
  • epical — (literature) Any book containing 2 or more epics.
  • epodic — Pertaining to or resembling an epode.

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