- lyric, lyrical - expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance"
Antonym: unemotional (indirect, via emotional)
- lyric - used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range; "a lyric soprano"
Antonym: dramatic
- lyric - relating to or being musical drama; "the lyric stage"
- lyric - of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way); "lyric poetry"
- lyric - of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way); "lyric poetry"
- lyric, words, language - 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"
--1 is a kind of text, textual matter
--1 is a part of song
--1 has particulars: love lyricDerived form: verb lyric1 - lyric, lyric poem - a short poem of songlike quality
--2 is a kind of poem, verse form
--2 has parts: strophe; antistrophe
--2 has particulars: ode