poetic meaning
EN[-ɛtɪk]- AdjectiveCOMmore poeticSUPmost poeticSUF-etic
- Relating to poetry.
- Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
- Characteristic of poets.
- Description of persons, objects, or ideas that connect to the soul of the beholder.
- Relating to poetry.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- In recovering the pointedly Spinozist impulse, the deeper critical motivation behind Heine's seemingly lighthanded poetic playfulness comes to the fore.
- an undersong of sense which none beside the poetic mind [ …] can comprehend. — Landor.
- And with poetic trappings grace thy prose, / Till it outmantle all the pride of verse. — Cowper.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
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