Word Meanings - LYRIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The words of a song. (more info) 1. A lyric poem; a lyrical composition. 2. A composer of lyric poems. Addison. 3. A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural. 4. pl.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LYRIC)

• Poetical
• Metrical
• rythmic
• versified
• lyric
• rhyming
• imaginative
• creative
• romantic
• fictitious
• dreamy
• flighty
• Song
• Poem
• lay
• ballad
• strain
• ditty
• carol
• anthem
• epic

Related words: (words related to LYRIC)

• ANTHEMIS
  Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.
• BALLADE
  A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• RHYMERY
  The art or habit of making rhymes; rhyming; -- in contempt.
• DITTY
  p. p. neut. of dictare to say often, dictate, compose. See Dictate, 1. A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme. O, too high ditty for my simple rhyme. Spenser. 2. A song; a lay; a little poem intended
• CAROLING
  A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols. Coleridge. Such heavenly notes and carolings. Spenser.
• CAROLINE
  A coin. See Carline.
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• ROMANTICIST
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
• METRICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions. 2. Of or pertaining to measurement; as, the inch, foot, yard, etc., are metrical terms; esp., of or pertaining to the metric system.
• ROMANTICALY
  In a romantic manner.
• ROMANTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more
• CAROLUS
  An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay.
• FLIGHTY
  1. Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak. 2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder Proofs of my flighty and
• RHYMER
  One who makes rhymes; a versifier; -- generally in contempt; a poor poet; a poetaster. This would make them soon perceive what despicaple creatures our common rhymers and playwriters be. Milton.
• LYRIC; LYRICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp. 2. Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet. "Sweet lyric song." Milton.
• STRAINED
  1. Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. 2. Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
• CREATIVENESS
  The qualiyu of being creative.
• CREATIVE
  Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation. "Creative talent." W. Irving. The creative force exists in the germ. Whewell.
• ANEMOMETRIC; ANEMOMETRICAL
  Of or pertaining to anemometry.
• ISOPERIMETRICAL
  Having equal perimeters of circumferences; as, isoperimetrical figures or bodies.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DIAMETRICALLY
  In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.
• RE-CREATIVE
  Creating anew; as, re-creative power.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• HEXAMETRIC; HEXAMETRICAL
  Consisting of six metrical feet.
• GASOMETRIC; GASOMETRICAL
  Of or pertaining to the measurement of gases; as, gasometric analysis.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.