Antipoetic

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Opposed to poetry.

    "It is very hard to see Plato as an antipoetic scientist, for Plato was himself a poet, communicating his ideas in allegorical and mythic form."

Example

More examples

"It is very hard to see Plato as an antipoetic scientist, for Plato was himself a poet, communicating his ideas in allegorical and mythic form."

Etymology

From anti- + poetic.

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