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Adjective: poetic  pow'e-tik
  1. Characterized by romantic imagery
    "Turner's vision of the rainbow...was poetic"
     
  2. Characteristic of or befitting poetry
    "poetic diction";
    - poetical
     
  3. Of or relating to poetry
    "a poetic romance"; "poetic works";
    - poetical
     
  4. Of or relating to poets
    "poetic insight"

See also: figurative, nonliteral, rhetorical

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