Lyrical

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lyric \Lyr"ic\, Lyrical \Lyr"ic*al\, a. [L. lyricus, Gr. ?: cf.
     F. lyrique. See {Lyre}.]
     1. Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate


        for song; suitable for or suggestive of singing; -- of
        music or poetry.
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     3. expressing deep personal emotion; -- said especially of
        poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the
        poet; as, the dancer's lyrical performance. "Sweet lyric
        song." --Milton.
  
     Syn: lyric.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lyrical
       adj 1: suitable for or suggestive of singing
       2: expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer's lyrical
          performance" [syn: {lyric}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  105 Moby Thesaurus words for "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