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unpoetical

  • a word derived from poetic.
    poetic
    adjective
    possessing the qualities or charm of poetry.
  • a word derived from unpoetic.
    unpoetic
    adjective
    not poetic; not resembling, using, or consisting of poetry.

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Keats referred to himself as a “camelion Poet”: “the poet has . . . no identity—he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God’s Creatures.”

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 27, 2019

When the 1990s brought an emphasis on art being viewed as unspiritual, unpoetical, socioeconomic evidence, the perspective on Cole changed.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2018

An unpoetical but potato-providing suitor is close at hand.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here are unpoetical lines which might have been written in prose, but Wordsworth had to give us some preliminary information so that we could follow his story.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell

Had the stinging whips of captivity taught him sympathy with unpoetical sorrows; or is this an early hint of the coming storm!

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason

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