"poetic" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /pəʊˈɛtɪk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /poʊˈɛtɪk/ [General-American], /pəʉˈetɪk/ [General-Australian] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-poetic.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more poetic [comparative], most poetic [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɛtɪk Etymology: From Middle French poetique, from Latin poeticus, from Ancient Greek ποιητικός (poiētikós) from ποιέω (poiéō, “make”). Doublet of poietic. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|poetique}} Middle French poetique, {{der|en|la|poeticus}} Latin poeticus, {{der|en|grc|ποιητικός}} Ancient Greek ποιητικός (poiētikós), {{m|grc|ποιέω|t=make}} ποιέω (poiéō, “make”), {{doublet|en|poietic}} Doublet of poietic Head templates: {{en-adj}} poetic (comparative more poetic, superlative most poetic)
  1. Relating to poetry. Translations (relating to poetry): digterlik (Afrikaans), ποιητικός (poiētikós) (Ancient Greek), شِعْرِيّ (šiʕriyy) (Arabic), шиғри (şiğri) (Bashkir), поетичен (poetičen) (Bulgarian), poètic (Catalan), poëtisch (Dutch), dichterlijk (Dutch), runollinen (Finnish), poétique (French), poético (Galician), პოეტური (ṗoeṭuri) (Georgian), სალექსო (salekso) (Georgian), dichterisch (German), poetisch (German), ποιητικός (poiitikós) (Greek), poetic (Interlingua), poetico (Italian), ақындық (aqyndyq) (Kazakh), поэтикалық (poétikalyq) (Kazakh), поэзиялық (poéziälyq) (Kazakh), കാവ്യ (kāvya) (Malayalam), കാവ്യാത്മക (kāvyātmaka) (Malayalam), sċoplīċ (Old English), lēoþlīċ (Old English), poetycki (Polish), poético (Portuguese), poetic (Romanian), поэти́ческий (poetíčeskij) (Russian), поэти́чный (poetíčnyj) (Russian), poetic (Scots), pjȅsničkī [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), pòetskī [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), poético (Spanish), poetisk (Swedish), కవితాత్మక (kavitātmaka) (Telugu), şiirsel (Turkish), barddol (Welsh), פּאָעטיש (poetish) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-poetic-en-adj-qcrA6cXL Disambiguation of 'relating to poetry': 97 2 1
  2. Characteristic of poets; romantic, imaginative, etc. Translations (characteristic of poets): poètic (Catalan), poëtisch (Dutch), dichterlijk (Dutch), poétique (French), პოეტური (ṗoeṭuri) (Georgian), dichterisch (German), poetisch (German), ποιητικός (poiitikós) (Greek), poetico (Italian), sċoplīċ (Old English), lēoþlīċ (Old English), poético (Portuguese), поэти́ческий (poetíčeskij) (Russian), pjȅsničkī [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), pòetskī [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), poético (Spanish), פּאָעטיש (poetish) (Yiddish), דיכטעריש (dikhterish) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-poetic-en-adj-3G~wDkHD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 50 39 Disambiguation of 'characteristic of poets': 2 95 3
  3. Connecting to the soul of the beholder.
    Sense id: en-poetic-en-adj-eEcF6e2q
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: poetick [obsolete], poetical Related terms: poem, poet, poetics, poetry

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    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛtɪk",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛtɪk/3 syllables"
  ],
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    {
      "word": "antipoetic"
    },
    {
      "word": "ecopoetic"
    },
    {
      "word": "ethnopoetic"
    },
    {
      "word": "extrapoetic"
    },
    {
      "word": "musicopoetic"
    },
    {
      "word": "mythopoetic"
    },
    {
      "word": "nonpoetic"
    },
    {
      "word": "poetically"
    },
    {
      "word": "poetic bent"
    },
    {
      "word": "poeticise"
    },
    {
      "word": "poeticism"
    },
    {
      "word": "poeticization"
    },
    {
      "word": "poeticize"
    },
    {
      "word": "poetic justice"
    },
    {
      "word": "poeticky"
    },
    {
      "word": "poetic licence"
    },
    {
      "word": "poeticness"
    },
    {
      "word": "protopoetic"
    },
    {
      "word": "pseudopoetic"
    },
    {
      "word": "semipoetic"
    },
    {
      "word": "sociopoetic"
    },
    {
      "word": "theopoetic"
    },
    {
      "word": "unpoetic"
    },
    {
      "word": "wax poetic"
    }
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      "args": {
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        "2": "frm",
        "3": "poetique"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French poetique",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "poeticus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin poeticus",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "ποιητικός"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ποιέω",
        "t": "make"
      },
      "expansion": "ποιέω (poiéō, “make”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "poietic"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of poietic",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
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    {
      "form": "more poetic",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most poetic",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {},
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    }
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    "po‧et‧ic"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
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      "word": "poem"
    },
    {
      "word": "poet"
    },
    {
      "word": "poetics"
    },
    {
      "word": "poetry"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Iambics are one form of poetic meter.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Relating to poetry."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poetry",
          "poetry"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Characteristic of poets; romantic, imaginative, etc."
      ],
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        [
          "poet",
          "poet"
        ],
        [
          "romantic",
          "romantic"
        ],
        [
          "imaginative",
          "imaginative"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Connecting to the soul of the beholder."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "soul",
          "soul"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pəʊˈɛtɪk/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/poʊˈɛtɪk/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pəʉˈetɪk/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛtɪk"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "poetick"
    },
    {
      "word": "poetical"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "digterlik"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "šiʕriyy",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "شِعْرِيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "şiğri",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "шиғри"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "poetičen",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "поетичен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "poètic"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "poëtisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "dichterlijk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "runollinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "poétique"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "poético"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ṗoeṭuri",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "პოეტური"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "salekso",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "სალექსო"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "dichterisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "poetisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "poiitikós",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "ποιητικός"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "poiētikós",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "ποιητικός"
    },
    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "poetic"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "poetico"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "aqyndyq",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "ақындық"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "poétikalyq",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "поэтикалық"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "poéziälyq",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "поэзиялық"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "kāvya",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "കാവ്യ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "kāvyātmaka",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "കാവ്യാത്മക"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "sċoplīċ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "lēoþlīċ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "poetycki"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "poético"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "poetic"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "poetíčeskij",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "поэти́ческий"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "poetíčnyj",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "поэти́чный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sco",
      "lang": "Scots",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "poetic"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "pjȅsničkī"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "pòetskī"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "poético"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "poetisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "kavitātmaka",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "కవితాత్మక"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "şiirsel"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "barddol"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "poetish",
      "sense": "relating to poetry",
      "word": "פּאָעטיש"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "word": "poètic"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "word": "poëtisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "word": "dichterlijk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "word": "poétique"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ṗoeṭuri",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "word": "პოეტური"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "word": "dichterisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "word": "poetisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "poiitikós",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "word": "ποιητικός"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "word": "poetico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "word": "sċoplīċ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "word": "lēoþlīċ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "word": "poético"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "poetíčeskij",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "word": "поэти́ческий"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "pjȅsničkī"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "pòetskī"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "word": "poético"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "poetish",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "word": "פּאָעטיש"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "dikhterish",
      "sense": "characteristic of poets",
      "word": "דיכטעריש"
    }
  ],
  "word": "poetic"
}

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