What does Lyrical mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lyricaladjective

    suitable for or suggestive of singing

  2. lyric, lyricaladjective

    expressing deep emotion

    "the dancer's lyrical performance"

Wiktionary

  1. lyricaladjective

    Appropriate for or suggestive of singing.

  2. lyricaladjective

    Expressive of emotion.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Lyrical, Lyrickadjective

    Pertaining to an harp, or to odes or poetry sung to an harp; singing to an harp.

    Etymology: lyricus, Latin; lyrique, French.

    All his trophies hung and acts enroll’d
    In copious legend, or sweet lyrick song. John Milton, Agonist.

    Somewhat of the purity of English, somewhat of more equal thoughts, somewhat of sweetness in the numbers; in one word, somewhat of a finer turn, and more lyrical verse, is yet wanting. Dryden.

    The lute neglected, and the lyrick muse,
    Love taught my tears in sadder notes to flow,
    And tun’d my heart to elegies of woe. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. lyrical

    Lyrical generally refers to expressing the writer's emotions or personal feelings in an imaginative and beautiful way. It is often associated with song lyrics or poetry, where intense emotion, strong personal expression, and rich imagery are commonly used. Lyrical can also describe a literary or creative work that has the form or quality of a song or poem.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lyricaladjective

    of or pertaining to a lyre or harp

  2. Lyricaladjective

    fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet

Wikidata

  1. Lyrical

    Professor Lyrical is a Hip hop artist from Lowell, Massachusetts, who also teaches college. His 2005 album iNFiNiTi won for album of the year in the M.I.C. Hip Hop awards in Boston and is available worldwide. He is a full-time Lecturer at Northeastern University, and has been an adjunct professor at several other schools part-time in Massachusetts, primarily in the areas of Math and entertainment. He speaks and performs regularly at many different venues, but primarily at colleges and universities. In the early and mid 1990s he competed in several invitation only freestyle battles, and went on to win many more in the years to follow. He is part of the Mass Industry Committee and 617Live TV, which is also owned by the Mass Industry Committee. Lyrical also has filled in for fellow Boston rapper Akrobatik on JAM'N 94.5 to perform the daily "SPORTS RAP UP" on occasion when Akrobatik is unavailable. He has appeared on many different radio segments, television shows, news programs and even movies.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Lyrical in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Lyrical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Lyrical in a Sentence

  1. Billy Ray:

    He was telling this very lyrical love story and I think we were making much more of a thriller, we were making this very intense movie about the cost of obsession and that it expresses itself in a very different way in what Juan Campanella expressed it.

  2. Lyrical Double G Genius:

    I ain't a street busker, I'm a microphone hustler, manipulating lyrics I'm a lyrical shuffler.

  3. George Santayana:

    ... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

  4. Devin Cole:

    She's a lyrical goddess.

  5. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

    In the delicate dance of words, a poem reveals the beauty and complexity of the human experience, inviting us to ponder, reflect, and find solace in its lyrical embrace.

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