unpoetical en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + poetical.
Meanings
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not poetical
[…] in the case of the well-circumstanced narration of the contest at Salamis and of the choral ode, which, unpoetical in its over-wealth of geographical detail, is, in its panoramic marshalling of the conquests of Darius, a threnody on the ruin of his sea empire.
1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “III. The Persians”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 84:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more unpoetical | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most unpoetical | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
unpoeticality · unpoeticalness