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Meaning of "unpoetic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNPOETIC

unpoetic  [ˌʌnpəʊˈɛtɪkəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNPOETIC

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

WHAT DOES UNPOETIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unpoetic in the English dictionary

The definition of unpoetic in the dictionary is not elevated, sublime, etc, as is characteristic of poetry.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNPOETIC


aesthetical
iːsˈθɛtɪkəl
alphabetical
ˌælfəˈbɛtɪkəl
antipathetical
ˌæntɪpəˈθɛtɪkəl
antithetical
ˌæntɪˈθɛtɪkəl
apologetical
əˌpɒləˈdʒɛtɪkəl
ascetical
əˈsɛtɪkəl
catechetical
ˌkætɪˈkɛtɪkəl
cosmetical
kɒzˈmɛtɪkəl
cytogenetical
ˌsaɪtəʊdʒɪˈnɛtɪkəl
esthetical
iːsˈθɛtɪkəl
exegetical
ˌɛksɪˈdʒɛtɪkəl
heretical
hɪˈrɛtɪkəl
hermetical
hɜːˈmɛtɪkəl
homiletical
ˌhɒmɪˈlɛtɪkəl
hypothetical
ˌhaɪpəˈθɛtɪkəl
metatheoretical
ˌmɛtəθɪəˈrɛtɪkəl
mythopoetical
ˌmɪθəʊpəʊˈɛtɪkəl
reticle
ˈrɛtɪkəl
splenetical
splɪˈnɛtɪkəl
theoretical
ˌθɪəˈrɛtɪkəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNPOETIC

unplume
unpoetical
unpoetically
unpoeticalness
unpointed
unpoised
unpoison
unpolarisable
unpolarised
unpolarizable
unpolarized
unpoliced
unpolicied
unpolish
unpolishable
unpolished
unpolitely
unpoliteness
unpolitic
unpolitical

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNPOETIC

aesthetic
aloetic
anoetic
antipoetic
athletic
cosmetic
diabetic
dianoetic
energetic
genetic
goetic
kinetic
magnetic
mythopoetic
noetic
nonpoetic
onomatopoetic
poetic
synthetic
zoetic

Synonyms and antonyms of unpoetic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «unpoetic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNPOETIC

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The translations of unpoetic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unpoetic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

unpoetic
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

antipoético
570 millions of speakers

English

unpoetic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

unpoetic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

unpoetic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

unpoetic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

unpoetic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কবিত্বহীন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

peu poétique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak bersalah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unpoetische
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

unpoetic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

unpoetic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unpoetic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

unpoetic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

unpoetic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनौपचारिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

şiirsel olmayan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

impoetico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

unpoetic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

unpoetic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

unpoetic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

unpoetic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

unpoetic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

unpoetic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

unpoetic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unpoetic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNPOETIC»

The term «unpoetic» is regularly used and occupies the 102.315 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNPOETIC» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNPOETIC»

Discover the use of unpoetic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unpoetic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Prehumous As Opposed To Posthumous: Unpoetic Poems About ...
Ogden Nash, Dave Barry, Bill Maher, Oprah Winfrey, Rudyard Kipling, and Dr. Seuss are among the myriad writers and celebrities who have inspired retired Colonel Steven Selman to put his pen to paper.
Steven Selman, 2005
2
On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word
through the washed rooms of the simple senses; one of those haunted, undefendible, unpoetic crosses we have to find.48 To 'find', not bear, the cross, as if it were a suffering complexity to be sought, is to discover the place where the poem ...
Angela Leighton, 2007
3
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Still, many suggestions convince. We must keep in mind how much Latin has been lost when we call words unpoetic or prosaic, but just as the use of poetic words generally adds a certain 'other-ness', the use of 'prosaic' or 'unpoetic' words ...
Charles Martindale, 1997
4
Twentieth-Century Literary Theory: An Introductory Anthology
Is the schoolroom of Yeats's poem poetic or unpoetic? Is Shakespeare's "new- borne babe/Striding the blast" poetic whereas the idiot of his "Life is a tale tolde by an idiot" is unpoetic? If Herrick's "budding boy or girl" is poetic, then why is not  ...
Vassilis Lambropoulos, David Neal Miller, 1987
5
Literature and Philosophy in Dialogue: Essays in German ...
Open are the windows of heaven and the spirit of night is free to roam, the stormer of heaven; he has wheedled our land with many and unpoetic tongues; he has rolled in the rubbish right up to the present hour. And yet, what I want will come, ...
Hans-Georg Gadamer, 1994
6
Wilderness and the Heart: Henry Bugbee's Philosophy of ...
Heidegger there distinguishes between poetic dwelling and unpoetic dwelling, finding that the age of technology is altogether unpoetic in its dwelling. For all its " curious excess of frantic measuring and calculating it is unable to take the ...
Edward F. Mooney, 1999
7
The Pastor as Minor Poet: Texts and Subtexts in the ...
The. Unpoetic. Congregation. I was still twenty feet away from the fellowship hall when the scent of the overcooked lasagna met me. The conversation with the Strattons went too long. (Maybe I can call Ted Lambert tomorrow. And don't forget  ...
M. Craig Barnes, 2008
8
The heir of Ardennan, by the author of 'Anne Dysart
While Maria spoke, Caroline began to think if her nature was really so matter- of- fact and unpoetic as Maria represented. Was her constant love for Malcolm Gordon unpoetic ? Had her long struggles to subdue all vain repinings, to maintain ...
Christiana Jane Douglas, 1852
9
Shakespere's Home at New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon: Being a ...
thought to lay "an unpoetic age," for every age must seem to the men of the day matter of fact and unpoetic. To-day always appears prosaic ; yesterday and tomorrow — subjects of retrospection and anticipation, not objects in possession — are ...
John Chippendall Montesquieu Bellew, 1863
10
Works: Prose and Verse Complete
St. & On the contrary, to how many passages, both in hymn books and in blank verse poems, could I (were it not invidious) direct the reader's attention, the style of which is most unpoetic because, and only because, it is the style or prose?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1846

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNPOETIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unpoetic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Google's Translate App Is Now Indispensable for International …
When I showed it a volume of Portuguese poetry, it was able to offer serviceable—if singularly unpoetic—takes on some lines. “The Martian found me on the ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
2
'A Streetcar Named Desire' Review: Let Them See You Sweat
It is, in fact, the quintessential hot-weather play, a steamy tale of subtropical passion gone wrong, and William Brown's stark, deliberately unpoetic revival makes ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
3
Why tuition fees are good for you
But when Alex Salmond did the same and produced a stone engraved with his own (horribly unpoetic) tribute to free education in Scotland, suddenly, he's a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
4
The Universe's Brightest Galaxy Shines Like 300 Trillion Suns
This particular galaxy—dubbed the decidedly unpoetic WISE J224607.57-052635.0—is the most luminous of the 20 they've found to date. The team's findings ... «Motherboard, May 15»
5
Secret romance, offspring for California condor pair
The two birds, known by the decidedly unpoetic names of 209 and 231, will now spend a year showing the apple of their beady eyes how to survive in the wild. «The Seattle Times, Jan 15»
6
Unpoetic emails derail Sydney Uni professor Barry Spurr
THE University of Sydney has suspended one of its eminent professors and ordered an investigation after he allegedly referred to Tony Abbott as an “Abo lover”, ... «The Australian, Oct 14»
7
Mafika Gwala: Potent voice not silenced by death
As long as this land, my country is unpoetic in its doings it'll be poetic to disagree. (In Defence of Poetry, 1982). Mafika Pascal Gwala died on September 6 in ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Sep 14»
8
Film Review: The Expendables 3
In actual fact the line comes from the resolutely unpoetic gob of Mel Gibson, who sits trussed-up in a military plane flying somewhere over “Uzmenistan”, ... «CITY A.M., Aug 14»
9
Trio of supermassive black holes offers new tool for studying cosmos
The system bears the very unpoetic name of SDSS J150243.09+111557.3 — or just J1502+1115 for short — and was detected by an array of distantly spaced ... «Los Angeles Times, Jun 14»
10
Time to remember the First World War
As such the proposal is ambitious and not unpoetic. But is it really necessary to try to coordinate the entire nation's commemoration of the Great War in such a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Unpoetic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/unpoetic>. May 2024 ».
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