lyrical

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: lyr=i=cal

CIDE DICTIONARY

lyrical, a. [L. lyricus, Gr. : cf. F. lyrique. See Lyre.].

•  Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.  [1913 Webster]
•  Fitted to be sung to the lyre;  [1913 Webster]
•  expressing deep personal emotion; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet; as, the dancer's lyrical performance.  Milton.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lyrical, adj.
1 = LYRIC.
2 resembling, couched in, or using language appropriate to, lyric poetry.
3 colloq. highly enthusiastic (wax lyrical about).

Derivative

lyrically adv. lyricalness n.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

lyrical

Poetry

N poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring, versification, rhyming, making verses, prosody, orthometry, poem, epic, epic poem, epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody, elegy, amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode, dramatic poetry, lyric poetry, opera, posy, anthology, disjecta membra poetae song, ballad, lay, love song, drinking song, war song, sea song, lullaby, music, nursery rhymes, doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad, macaronics, macaronic verse, leonine verse, runes, canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain, strophe, antistrophe, verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm, accentuation, dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest, hexameter, pentameter, Alexandrine, anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus, elegiacs, elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry, poet, poet laureate, laureate, bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere, minstrel, minnesinger, meistersinger, improvisatore, versifier, sonneteer, rhymer, rhymist, rhymester, ballad monger, runer, poetaster, genus irritabile vatum, poetic, poetical, lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic, metrical, a catalectin, elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic, amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic, Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric, a poem round and perfect as a star, Dichtung und Wahrheit, furor poeticus, his virtues formed the magic of his song, I do but sing because I must, I learnt life from the poets, licentia vatum, mutum est pictura poema, O for a muse of fire!, sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge, the true poem is the poet's mind, Volk der Dichter und Denker, wisdom married to immortal verse.