lyrical

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
lyrical
    adj 1: suitable for or suggestive of singing
    2: expressing deep emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance"
       [syn: {lyric}, {lyrical}]
    
from 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.
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   2. Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate
      for song; suitable for or suggestive of singing; -- of
      music or poetry.
      [1913 Webster]

   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]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "lyrical":
      Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian,
      Pindaric, Theocritean, achingly sweet, agreeable,
      agreeable-sounding, alto, appealing, ariose, arioso, bardic,
      baritone, bass, bravura, bucolic, canorous, cantabile, catchy,
      choral, choric, coloratura, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic,
      dulcet, ebullient, eclogic, ecstatic, effusive, elegiac, emotional,
      encomiastic, enthusiastic, epic, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous,
      exuberant, falsetto, fine-toned, golden, golden-tongued,
      golden-voiced, heroic, honeyed, hymnal, idyllic, impassioned,
      liturgical, lyric, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant,
      mellow, melodic, melodious, mock-heroic, music-flowing, music-like,
      musical, narrative, operatic, panegyrical, pastoral, pleasant,
      pleasant-sounding, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological,
      poetico-philosophic, poetlike, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic,
      rapturous, rhapsodic, rich, runic, sacred, sapphic, silver-toned,
      silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable, singing, skaldic,
      songful, songlike, sonorous, soprano, sweet, sweet-flowing,
      sweet-sounding, tenor, treble, tunable, tuneful, vocal

    

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