Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Appropriate for or suggestive of singing.
- adj. Expressive of emotion.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as lyric.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. suitable for or suggestive of singing
- adj. expressing deep emotion
Etymologies
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Examples
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Told in lyrical Jacobeanesque dialect, the stories are striking for their language and their originality.
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Stokes's projects often culminate in short, lyrical films.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's a deeply felt and authentic book written in lyrical and compelling language, telling a universal story about mothers and daughters.
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"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.
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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.
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If you are going 'glamourise the issue and sell it in lyrical form then at least for gods sake get all the issues right.
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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).
lyric commented on the word lyrical
i always wanted to wax poetic with a pickle. now i know how. thanks!
May 6, 2008