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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: suitable for or suggestive of singing
2: expressing deep emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance" [syn: lyric, lyrical]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1581 lyric • lyrically adverb • lyricalness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 = LYRIC. 2 resembling, couched in, or using language appropriate to, lyric poetry. 3 colloq. highly enthusiastic (wax lyrical about). Derivatives: lyrically adv. lyricalness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lyric Lyr"ic, Lyrical Lyr"ic*al, a. [L. lyricus, Gr. ?: cf. F. lyrique. See Lyre.] 1. Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp. 2. Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet. ``Sweet lyric song.'' --Milton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is lyrical is poetic and romantic. His paintings became more lyrical. ...its remarkable free-flowing and often lyrical style. to wax lyrical: see wax ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, achingly sweet, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, alto, appealing, ariose, arioso, bardic, baritone, bass, bravura, bucolic, canorous, cantabile, catchy, choral, choric, coloratura, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic, dulcet, ebullient, eclogic, ecstatic, effusive, elegiac, emotional, encomiastic, enthusiastic, epic, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, exuberant, falsetto, fine-toned, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, heroic, honeyed, hymnal, idyllic, impassioned, liturgical, lyric, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, mock-heroic, music-flowing, music-like, musical, narrative, operatic, panegyrical, pastoral, pleasant, pleasant-sounding, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, rapturous, rhapsodic, rich, runic, sacred, sapphic, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable, singing, skaldic, songful, songlike, sonorous, soprano, sweet, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, tenor, treble, tunable, tuneful, vocal