Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Expressing deep personal emotion or observations: a dancer's lyrical performance; a lyrical passage in his autobiography.
- adj. Highly enthusiastic; rhapsodic: gave a lyrical description of her experiences in the South Seas.
- adj. Lyric.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as lyric.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. suitable for or suggestive of singing
- adj. expressing deep emotion
Examples
“Told in lyrical Jacobeanesque dialect, the stories are striking for their language and their originality.”
“Stokes's projects often culminate in short, lyrical films.”
“As the bottles get tossed about, the tasters are treated to a rehearsed history of the winery in lyrical form, thanking Coca-Cola profusely for suing Bully Hill in its early years which helped to help boost sales and name recognition.”
“Written in lyrical, accessible prose, Talking Hands will captivate anyone interested in language, the human mind and journeys to exotic places.”
Talking Hands: Summary and book reviews of Talking Hands by Margalit Fox.
“Some people, y'know, are better face to face with, over a few drinks, waxin 'lyrical about this that or t'other in a semi-sober state.”
“It's a deeply felt and authentic book written in lyrical and compelling language, telling a universal story about mothers and daughters.”
“Totally In Love" takes the D into new territory, both in lyrical content and sonically too, where the music comes close to unbelievably catchy, with background vocals and production duties fulfilled by Phiiliip.”
“At the same time, the songs are all "sad sappy sucker" in lyrical content - love songs basically - loveletters to the girl (s) that have left you, breakup songs and other love-themes, sometimes sad, sometimes not.”
“If you are going 'glamourise the issue and sell it in lyrical form then at least for gods sake get all the issues right.”
“I started it today with the word lyrical, which was a very lucky word to start with coz it was quite easy, and I wrote a page and a half about talk shows (in my head talk shows are somehow related to the word lyrical).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lyrical’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Pickle and such
Words that end like pickle. Listed here because they're funny (because they end like pickle).
pickle, sparkle, yokel, tinkle, fickle, prickle, trickle, circle, snorkel, ensnorkel, chuckle, buckle and 137 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( etymology )
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 837 more...
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This intriguing novel .... is a taut, lyrical, ...
Crimes committed by book reviewers. Terms here are culled shamelessly from a recent New York Times blog post, and the comments that it generated.
Seven Deadly Sins
See a...poignant, compelling, taut, lyrical, spare, eschew, limn, craft, nuanced, contrived, majestic, subtle and 52 more...
lyric i always wanted to wax poetic with a pickle. now i know how. thanks! May 5, 2008