poetical

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Synonym of poetic.

   That our work, therefore, might be in no danger of being likened to the labours of these historians, we have taken every occasion of interspersing through the whole sundry similes, descriptions, and other kind of poetical embellishments.

2. 2
   adj

   characteristic of or befitting poetry

3. 3
   adj

   of or relating to poetry

From Middle English poetical, possibly equivalent to poet + -ical.

Topics