[syn: lyric, lyrical]
2. used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range;
- Example: "a lyric soprano"
3. relating to or being musical drama;
- Example: "the lyric stage"
4. of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way);
- Example: "lyric poetry"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
2. Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate
for song; suitable for or suggestive of singing; -- of
music or poetry.
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3. expressing deep personal emotion; -- said especially of
poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the
poet; as, the dancer's lyrical performance. "Sweet lyric
song." --Milton.
Syn: lyric.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lyric \Lyr"ic\, n.
1. A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.
[1913 Webster]
2. A composer of lyric poems. [R.] --Addison.
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3. A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; --
used chiefly in the plural.
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4. pl. The words of a song.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
lyric
adj 1: expressing deep emotion; "the dancer's lyrical
performance" [syn: lyric, lyrical]
2: used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and
modest in range; "a lyric soprano" [ant: dramatic]
3: relating to or being musical drama; "the lyric stage"
4: of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion
(often in a songlike way); "lyric poetry"
n 1: the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his
compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote
both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"
[syn: lyric, words, language]
2: a short poem of songlike quality [syn: lyric, lyric poem]
v 1: write lyrics for (a song)
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "lyric":
English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic,
balada, ballad, ballade, book, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew,
dirge, dithyramb, dulcet, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram,
epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel,
graceful, haiku, idiosyncratic, idyll, individual, jingle,
libretto, light, limerick, lyrical, lyrics, madrigal, mellifluous,
mellow, melodic, melodious, monody, musical, narrative poem,
nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela,
pastourelle, personal, poem, prothalamium, rhapsodic, rhyme,
rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, sentimental, sestina,
silvery, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, subjective, sweet,
tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse,
verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay, words
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
LYRIC
Language for Your Remote Instruction by Computer. A CAI
language implemented as a Fortran preprocessor.
["Computer Assisted Instruction: Specification of Attributes
for CAI Programs and Programmers", G.M. Silvern et al, Proc
ACM 21st Natl Conf (1966)].
(1994-10-12)