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poetic

adj
/pəʊˈɛtɪk/UK/poʊˈɛtɪk/US/poʊˈetɪk/

Etymology

From Middle French poetique, from Latin poeticus, from Ancient Greek ποιητικός (poiētikós) from ποιέω (poiéō, “make”). Doublet of poietic.

  1. derived from ποιητικός
  2. derived from poeticus
  3. derived from poetique

Definitions

  1. Relating to poetry.

    • Iambics are one form of poetic meter.

  2. Characteristic of poets

    Characteristic of poets; romantic, imaginative, etc.

  3. Connecting to the soul of the beholder.

The neighborhood

Derived

antipoetic, ecopoetic, ethnopoetic, extrapoetic, impoetic, musicopoetic, mythopoetic, nonpoetic, poetically, poetic bent, poeticise, poeticism, poeticity, poeticization, poeticize, poetic justice, poeticky, poetic licence, poeticness, protopoetic, pseudopoetic, semipoetic, sociopoetic, theopoetic, unpoetic, wax poetic

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at poetic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at poetic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at poetic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA