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A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan

Meaning of "poetic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POETIC

poetic  [pəʊˈɛtɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POETIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Poetic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES POETIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

poetic

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning. Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Early poems evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a need to retell oral epics, as with the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Ancient attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy. Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition, verse form and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from more objectively informative, prosaic forms of writing. From the mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes been more generally regarded as a fundamental creative act employing language. Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words, or to evoke emotive responses.

Definition of poetic in the English dictionary

The first definition of poetic in the dictionary is of or relating to poetry. Other definition of poetic is characteristic of poetry, as in being elevated, sublime, etc. Poetic is also characteristic of a poet.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POETIC


aloetic
ˌæləʊˈɛtɪk
antipoetic
ˌæntɪpəʊˈɛtɪk
dianoetic
ˌdaɪənəʊˈɛtɪk
diapyetic
ˌdaɪəpaɪˈɛtɪk
erythropoietic
ɪˌrɪθrəʊpɔɪˈɛtɪk
galactopoietic
ɡəˌlæktəʊpɔɪˈɛtɪk
goetic
ɡəʊˈɛtɪk
haematopoietic
ˌhɛmətəʊpɔɪˈɛtɪk
hematopoietic
ˌhɛmətəʊpɔɪˈɛtɪk
leucopoietic
ˌluːkəʊpɔɪˈɛtɪk
leukopoietic
ˌluːkəʊpɔɪˈɛtɪk
lymphopoietic
ˌlɪmfəʊpɔɪˈɛtɪk
mythopoetic
ˌmɪθəʊpəʊˈɛtɪk
noetic
nəʊˈɛtɪk
nonpoetic
ˌnɒnpəʊˈɛtɪk
onomatopoetic
ˌɒnəˌmætəpəʊˈɛtɪk
rabietic
ˌreɪbɪˈɛtɪk
scabietic
ˌskeɪbɪˈɛtɪk
sovietic
ˌsəʊvɪˈɛtɪk
toyetic
ˌtɔɪˈɛtɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POETIC

poet laureate
poetaster
poetastery
poetastry
poetess
Poetic Edda
poetic justice
poetic licence
poetical
poetically
poeticalness
poeticise
poeticism
poeticize
poetics
poeticule
poetise
poetiser
poetize
poetizer

WORDS THAT END LIKE POETIC

acetic
aesthetic
alphabetic
anoetic
arithmetic
athletic
cosmetic
diabetic
electromagnetic
energetic
genetic
kinetic
magnetic
pathetic
prophetic
prosthetic
sympathetic
synthetic
unpoetic
zoetic

Synonyms and antonyms of poetic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «POETIC»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «poetic» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of poetic

Translation of «poetic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POETIC

Find out the translation of poetic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of poetic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «poetic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

富有诗意的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

poético
570 millions of speakers

English

poetic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

काव्य
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشعرية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

поэтическая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

poético
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কবিসুলভ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

poétique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Puitis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

poetisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

詩的な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

시적인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Puisi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thơ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கவிதை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कवितेचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

şiirsel
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

poetico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

poetycki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

поетична
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

poetic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ποιητικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

poëtiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

poetisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

poetisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of poetic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POETIC»

The term «poetic» is very widely used and occupies the 21.063 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POETIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «poetic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «poetic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about poetic

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10 QUOTES WITH «POETIC»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word poetic.
1
Yehuda Amichai
Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.
2
Thomas Aquinas
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
3
Matthew Arnold
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
4
Hayley Atwell
Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic, describing the sights, smells and sounds around me. It means I can relive the holiday years later.
5
Luis Barragan
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
6
Kate Beckinsale
Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
7
Bernardo Bertolucci
My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.
8
Henry Beston
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.
9
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.
10
David Bohm
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POETIC»

Discover the use of poetic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to poetic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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An Introduction to the Old Testament Poetic Books
The poetic books of the Old Testament--Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon--are often called humankind's reach toward God. The other books of the Old Testament picture God's reach toward man through the redemptive story.
C. Hassell Bullock, 2007
2
The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology
This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor.
Paul Acker, Carolyne Larrington, 2002
3
Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric
In Poetic License, Marjorie Perloff insists that despite the recent interest in "opening up the canon," our understanding of poetry and poetics is all too often rutted in conventional notions of the lyric that shed little light on what ...
Marjorie Perloff, 1990
4
Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End
In Poetic Closure, distinguished literary scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores the provocative question: How do poems end?
Barbara Herrnstein Smith, 1968
5
Poetic Theology: God and the Poetics of Everyday Life
Poetry and theology, once ancient bedfellows, have become increasingly estranged in modern times. In this text, Dyrness seeks to restore the relationship between them.
William A. Dyrness, 2011
6
A Poetic for Sociology: Toward a Logic of Discovery for the ...
For too long, argues Richard Harvey Brown, social scientists have felt forced to choose between imitating science's empirical methodology and impersonating a romantic notion of art, the methods of which are seen as primarily a matter of ...
Richard Harvey Brown, 1989
7
Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Perspective
This is followed by a broader discussion of philosophical and psychological issues having a bearing on the question of what is expressed non-propositionally in literary communication.
Adrian Pilkington, 2000
8
Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction
This is the first introduction to rhythm and meter that begins where students are: as speakers of English familiar with the rhythms of the spoken word, nursery rhymes, song and rap.
Derek Attridge, 1995
9
Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language ...
The accompanying DVD ... "showcases the poems and narratives under discussion in their original form, providing access to them for hearing non-signers for the first time.--co-publisher's website.
H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, Heidi M. Rose, 2006
10
A Companion to Poetic Genre
Covering a range of cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbean, amongst others, this valuable collection considers ancient genres such as the elegy, the ode, the ghazal and the ballad, before moving on ...
Erik Martiny, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POETIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term poetic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Out this August, RymdResa will be a 'poetic space odyssey' for iOS …
Described as a "poetic space odyssey", RymdResa is divided across three distinct chapters, each with unique gameplay and stories. Against a ... «Pocket Gamer, Jul 15»
2
John Doyle: Banished is a brutal, poetic portrait of Australia's …
... narrative never moves quite as you expect it. It is among the most odd of British period dramas – political, poetic, naive and nerve-shredding. «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
3
'Seduction of Delhi', a fascinating combination of poetic verse and …
New Delhi, July 26 (ANI): Diplomat-author Abhay K's fifth collection of poems titled "The Seduction of Delhi", as former diplomat-turned ... «ANINEWS, Jul 15»
4
Lianne La Havas, Blood, review: 'poetic'
She exhibits the poetic lyrical sensibility and self-questioning sensitivity of folky singer-songwriters, yet tends to swamp the acoustic origins of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
Indie Spotlight: 'Schlongologues' Waxes Poetic About Male Anatomy
We receive a ton of tips every day from independent creators, unaffiliated with any major motion picture studios, television networks, new media ... «Tubefilter, Jul 15»
6
'Poetic license' turns history and fact on their ends
The act is called “poetic license.” I call it an eight-letter barnyard word that I'm not allowed to use in the paper (we're a community newspaper). «Vicksburg Post, Jul 15»
7
Derby rundown
They ran one-two in the first-leg Barbados Guineas with Poetic Licence winning over Donicodidit in a race where Poetic Licence destroyed the ... «Barbados Today, Jul 15»
8
'... And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi' Provides a Unique Poetic
Sound Theatre Company's premier of ... And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi is a distinctive poetic vision of civil rights, freedom and the ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
9
Paper Towns: Teen escape film fails to simulate novel's dark, poetic
In the acknowledgments to his novel Paper Towns, John Green recognizes Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild as a “particularly helpful” book about ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
10
Penning a poetic field guide
Penning a poetic field guide ... escape, and now, the inspiration behind his latest book “Newported,” a poetic field guide to the Pacific Coast. «Newport News Times, Jul 15»

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