Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: poetic
IPA transcription: [poʊ'ɛtɪk]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: poetic, poetical
    Meaning: of or relating to poetry; "poetic works"; "a poetic romance"
  • Synonyms: poetic
    Meaning: characterized by romantic imagery; "Turner's vision of the rainbow...was poetic"
Usage examples
  • And consider the poetic justice of it!
  • The merit of every poetic work depends on three things:
  • This poetic process is all the more successful for being automatic.
  • It is an interesting specimen of poetic writing but it is not a perfect work of art.
  • As nations rose in civilization these fancies put on a more complex form and a more poetic fulness.
  • I sat down on a chair at the foot of an old elm with a poetic hollow, prosaically filled by a utilitarian plate of galvanised iron.
  • His profoundly poetic musical nature, with its high capacity for joy and sorrow and infinite longing, was reflected in all that he wrote.
  • With its bright colors, it lived up to those poetic names of blood flower and blood foam that the industry confers on its finest exhibits.
  • M.O. feels strongly the poetic and elevated character of his principal homosexual relationships, but he shrinks from appearing too sentimental.
  • She felt that her unity with her husband was not maintained by the poetic feelings that had attracted him to her, but by something else--indefinite but firm as the bond between her own body and soul.