POETIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poetic mean? 

• POETIC (adjective)
  The adjective POETIC has 4 senses:

1. of or relating to poetry

2. characterized by romantic imagery

3. of or relating to poets

4. characteristic of or befitting poetry

  Familiarity information: POETIC used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POETIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to poetry

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

poetic; poetical

Context example:

a poetic romance

Pertainym:

poetry (literature in metrical form)

Derivation:

poetry (any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characterized by romantic imagery

Context example:

Turner's vision of the rainbow...was poetic

Similar:

figurative; nonliteral ((used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech)

Derivation:

poetry (any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Of or relating to poets

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

poetic insight

Pertainym:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Derivation:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Characteristic of or befitting poetry

Synonyms:

poetic; poetical

Context example:

poetic diction

Similar:

rhetorical (given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought)

Derivation:

poetry (any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling)

 Context examples 

It’s a glorious, poetic month filled with rare opportunities that will delight and surprise you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There was a sort of poetic justice about it, after all, for the old lady had been the terror of the boys for miles around, and now the exiles feasted freely on forbidden plums, kicked up the gravel with profane boots unreproved, and played cricket in the big field where the irritable 'cow with a crumpled horn' used to invite rash youths to come and be tossed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Also, see if you can take off Monday, January 27, too, for this day is beyond glamorous and poetic for a romantic episode.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This time the Sun will be in Pisces, conjunct Neptune, covering the world in a soft poetic mist. If you have to travel for business, see if you can mix in pleasure by bringing your partner along.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)