lyric

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)
    

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.
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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.
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Lyric \Lyr"ic\, n.
   1. A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.
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   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.
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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)
    

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