Lyric \Lyr"ic\, Lyrical \Lyr"ic*al\, a. [L. lyricus, Gr. ?: cf.
F. lyrique. See Lyre.]
1. Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.
[1913 Webster]
2. Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate
for song; suitable for or suggestive of singing; -- of
music or poetry.
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3. expressing deep personal emotion; -- said especially of
poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the
poet; as, the dancer's lyrical performance. "Sweet lyric
song." --Milton.
Syn: lyric.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lyrical
adj 1: suitable for or suggestive of singing
2: expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer's lyrical
performance" [syn: lyric]
WordNet (r) 2.0
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "lyrical":
Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian,
Pindaric, Theocritean, achingly sweet, agreeable,
agreeable-sounding, alto, appealing, ariose, arioso, bardic,
baritone, bass, bravura, bucolic, canorous, cantabile, catchy,
choral, choric, coloratura, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic,
dulcet, ebullient, eclogic, ecstatic, effusive, elegiac, emotional,
encomiastic, enthusiastic, epic, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous,
exuberant, falsetto, fine-toned, golden, golden-tongued,
golden-voiced, heroic, honeyed, hymnal, idyllic, impassioned,
liturgical, lyric, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant,
mellow, melodic, melodious, mock-heroic, music-flowing, music-like,
musical, narrative, operatic, panegyrical, pastoral, pleasant,
pleasant-sounding, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological,
poetico-philosophic, poetlike, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic,
rapturous, rhapsodic, rich, runic, sacred, sapphic, silver-toned,
silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable, singing, skaldic,
songful, songlike, sonorous, soprano, sweet, sweet-flowing,
sweet-sounding, tenor, treble, tunable, tuneful, vocal
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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