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antipoetic

antipoetic adjective: opposed to poetry.

Adjective

antipoetic (comparative more antipoetic, superlative most antipoetic)

  1. Opposed to poetry.
    • It is very hard to see Plato as an antipoetic scientist, for Plato was himself a poet, communicating his ideas in allegorical and mythic form.1982, Richard Olson, Science Deified and Science Defied

Forms of antipoetic

comparativemore antipoetic
superlativemost antipoetic

Origin of antipoetic

From anti- + poetic.

Questions about antipoetic

What does antipoetic mean?
Antipoetic means opposed to poetry.
What part of speech is antipoetic?
Antipoetic is an adjective.

Words near antipoetic in the dictionary

  1. antipodist
  2. antipodists
  3. antipoem
  4. antipoems
  5. antipoet
  6. antipoetic
  7. antipoetical
  8. antipoetry
  9. antipoets
  10. antipoint
  11. antipoints

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