Haiku is a poetic form originating in Japan.
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Poetic
//pəʊˈɛtɪk//
Synonyms for "poetic" (66 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (19)
Related words (33)
Related word relations
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
related to
5 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
67 translations across 37 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- digterlik adj (relating to poetry)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ποιητικός adj (relating to poetry)
Arabic
1 entries- شِعْرِيّ adj (relating to poetry)
Armenian
2 entries- բանաստեղծական adj (relating to poetry)
- բանաստեղծական adj (characteristic of poets)
Bashkir
1 entries- шиғри adj (relating to poetry)
Belarusian
1 entries- паэты́чны adj (relating to poetry)
Bulgarian
1 entries- поетичен adj (relating to poetry)
Catalan
2 entries- poètic adj (relating to poetry)
- poètic adj (characteristic of poets)
Dutch
4 entries- dichterlijk adj (relating to poetry)
- dichterlijk adj (characteristic of poets)
- poëtisch adj (relating to poetry)
- poëtisch adj (characteristic of poets)
Esperanto
1 entries- poezia adj (relating to poetry)
Finnish
1 entries- runollinen adj (relating to poetry)
French
2 entries- poétique adj (relating to poetry)
- poétique adj (characteristic of poets)
Galician
1 entries- poético adj (relating to poetry)
Georgian
3 entries- პოეტური adj (relating to poetry)
- პოეტური adj (characteristic of poets)
- სალექსო adj (relating to poetry)
German
4 entries- dichterisch adj (relating to poetry)
- dichterisch adj (characteristic of poets)
- poetisch adj (relating to poetry)
- poetisch adj (characteristic of poets)
Greek
2 entries- ποιητικός adj (relating to poetry)
- ποιητικός adj (characteristic of poets)
Hungarian
2 entries- költői adj (relating to poetry)
- költői adj (characteristic of poets)
Interlingua
1 entries- poetic adj (relating to poetry)
Italian
2 entries- poetico adj (relating to poetry)
- poetico adj (characteristic of poets)
Kazakh
3 entries- ақындық adj (relating to poetry)
- поэзиялық adj (relating to poetry)
- поэтикалық adj (relating to poetry)
Malayalam
2 entries- കാവ്യ adj (relating to poetry)
- കാവ്യാത്മക adj (relating to poetry)
Old English
4 entries- lēoþlīċ adj (relating to poetry)
- lēoþlīċ adj (characteristic of poets)
- sċoplīċ adj (relating to poetry)
- sċoplīċ adj (characteristic of poets)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- поетични adj (relating to poetry)
Polish
1 entries- poetycki adj (relating to poetry)
Portuguese
2 entries- poético adj (relating to poetry)
- poético adj (characteristic of poets)
Romanian
1 entries- poetic adj (relating to poetry)
Russian
3 entries- поэти́ческий adj (relating to poetry)
- поэти́ческий adj (characteristic of poets)
- поэти́чный adj (relating to poetry)
Sanskrit
1 entries- कवितात्मक adj (relating to poetry)
Scots
1 entries- poetic adj (relating to poetry)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pjȅsničkī adj (relating to poetry)
- pjȅsničkī adj (characteristic of poets)
- pòetskī adj (relating to poetry)
- pòetskī adj (characteristic of poets)
Spanish
2 entries- poético adj (relating to poetry)
- poético adj (characteristic of poets)
Swedish
1 entries- poetisk adj (relating to poetry)
Telugu
1 entries- కవితాత్మక adj (relating to poetry)
Turkish
1 entries- şiirsel adj (relating to poetry)
Ukrainian
2 entries- поети́чний adj (relating to poetry)
- поети́чний adj (characteristic of poets)
Welsh
1 entries- barddol adj (relating to poetry)
Yiddish
3 entries- דיכטעריש adj (characteristic of poets)
- פּאָעטיש adj (relating to poetry)
- פּאָעטיש adj (characteristic of poets)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Mary always greatly enjoyed reading Tom's poetic letters.
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Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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