Lyric is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LYRIC in dictionary:

VERB:
• write lyrics for (a song)
NOUN:
• a lyrical poem
• a lyric poem or verse
• lyric poetry as a literary genre
• the words of a popular song
• A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.
• A composer of lyric poems.
• A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural.
• The words of a song.
• the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number
• a short poem of songlike quality
• short poem in a songlike style
ADJECTIVE:
• of poems or their authors, expressing individual or private emotions
• denoting a writer of lyric poetry
• (of a singing voice) using a light register
• expressing emotion in songlike style
• Alt. of Lyrical
• expressing deep emotion
• used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range
• relating to or being musical drama
• of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way)
• (of poetry) expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms

Words related to LYRIC

lyrical12 lyrically17 lyricalness16 lyrics11

How to use LYRIC in a sentence

• Like all the lyric poets of the age, they are a curious mixture of the Elizabethan and the Puritan standards.
• How difficult, if not impossible, a really satisfactory translation is, especially in lyric poetry, no one realizes more clearly than the editors.
• In spite of his heaviness in drama, Jonson had a light enough touch in lyric poetry.
• But the sincere accent of the letter and the lyric cry of the rough lines leave us to imagine that he was some one for whom Michelangelo felt very tenderly in Florence.
• A short distance away a brook murmured in lyric gentleness.
• The lyric is just in the position of conversation, at such a heightened and emotional moment.
• The first real lyric in Castilian is its offspring.
• Possibly, even in this hour preceding the hour of parting, he knew a little of that proud amazement which any poet is entitled to feel over each new lyric miracle just wrought.
• Guenther, 1695-1728, the most gifted lyric poet of his race before Klopstock, made Horace his companion and confidant of leisure hours.
• This dainty love lyric is said to have been written with Mrs.
• Yeats promises us more plays, but one cannot help wishing, if he must do verses other than lyric, he would put his hand now to a great epic.
• Yet its story is profoundly interesting and in its relations to the development of the lyric drama filled with significance.
• Symonds, who had a broader view of art than Sismondi, had no difficulty in perceiving that the true genius of this new drama was lyric.
• The lyric dramas of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were all presented in private.
• There is not one Greek lyric devoted to what we should designate love, with perhaps something like an exception in Alcman.
• He believed the opera was going to mark an epoch in the history of the lyric stage.
• Contains twelve specimens of lyric poetry, undoubtedly based on some German publication.
• Love, hate, jealousy, grief, hope, and praise are emotions that may be expressed in lyric poetry.
• The lyric theme wings its rapturous course to a blissful height, where an intrusion of the main motive but halts for the moment the returning tender verse.
• As a pretty counter-tune grows above, the melody sings below, with a blending of lyric feeling and the charm of dance.
• It may yet be made the theme of a majestic musical composition, now that Wagner has come to teach men how to build a lyric drama upon a phrase.
• This reproduction includes the revelation of the characteristics of the poem itself, whether lyric, dramatic, or in other ways distinctive.
• There was no formal school for poetical training during the best period of Provencal lyric.
• But Provencal influence, whether exerted directly or indirectly through the Northern French lyric school, is plainly visible in many cases.

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