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Definition of unpoetic in English: unpoeticadjective ʌnpəʊˈɛtɪkˌənpoʊˈɛdɪk Not having a style of expression characteristic of poetry. 无诗意的 the modern version of the Bible is entirely unmemorable and unpoetic Example sentencesExamples - Producer David Selznick treated Vittorio De Sica's Stazione Termini the same way, chopping languid scenes to leave a lean but unpoetic core.
- Gadsby's signature gingered butternut squash and lobster soup tasted uninterestingly sweet, its soft ‘cloud’ of almond-flavored egg white too strident, its ‘hazelnut veil’ an unpoetic dusting of pulverized nuts.
- Exactly, from your stand-point it does, but from mine, being as unpoetic as you can get, I see it as an extremely difficult one.
- And this is what the term editor can do, unpoetic as may be.
- As always her diction is sparse, almost unpoetic.
- That ‘something real ‘- demystified empirical, disciplined, unpoetic, unfanciful, formal criticism - presented itself in the writings of Greenberg.’
- Kelsey Grammer was not awful, merely unpoetic, untragic, uninteresting.
- Things get incredibly bizarre and life-threatening for Dent from now on, surrounded as he and his friends are by unpoetic, greasy monsters, depressed robots, a planet construction yard, talking mice, a total-perspective gun and so on.
- Many felt that he rarely revealed the ‘whole person’: he remained unconvinced that such an inherently unpoetic entity could be said to exist.
- There was a good deal of cheering after the final frenetic dash, eliciting as an encore a muddled and unpoetic account of Chopin's delicately arpeggiated Étude in E flat.
- Lyrically, the album matches its musical dead weight with a string of unpoetic clichés - maybe the lunkheads who fill arenas didn't get Chris Martin's ramblings about spies and scientists.
- The name ‘United Provinces of America’ would be correct, but is irredeemably unpoetic.
- Writing was his favourite pastime, pedantic, unpoetic stuff dealing with politics, history, education.
- With a sad shrug they then quickly munched down on a piece of lifeless unemotional unpoetic babycorn.
- Joachim Kaiser, writing in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, feels that Breth totally missed the mark: ‘So soberingly artificial, so compulsively jaunty, unpoetic and empty.’
- He is either a complete chancer or some kind of neglected genius (as the artist and promoter Richard Demarco puts it, an ‘alchemist’ taking ‘ordinary, run-of-the-mill, unpoetic information and turning it into gold’).
- Silliman approaches the history of this community through the stories of her ‘foremothers’, an unpoetic term for such poetically named women as Ruby, Flower and Farah.
- It hovers so close because like life, it's often unfair, unpoetic, plain contradictory, and retrospectively embarrassing - few of Darnielle's stories have chronicled passions so unadorned and believable.
- On the contrary, the raw and prolix language of his novels is unabashedly unpoetic and polemical.
- The freewheeling breadth that enables Murray to include it is one of his best qualities and serves as a welcome reminder that there is still poetry in vernaculars, and poetry too in things that we have come to consider unpoetic.
Synonyms unimaginative, uninspired, matter-of-fact, dull, dry, humdrum, mundane, pedestrian, heavy, plodding, lifeless, dead, spiritless, lacklustre, undistinguished, stale, jejune, bland, insipid, vapid, vacuous, banal, hackneyed, trite, literal, factual, unemotional, unsentimental, clear, plain, unadorned, unembellished, unvarnished, monotonous, deadpan, flat
Derivativesadjective In these unpoetical days, a wave of the Switch card does the job. Example sentencesExamples - For the Australian situation presents a fairly clear-cut picture of some three distinct schools of poetry operating at a degree of intensity never before known in this remarkably uncultured and unpoetical country.
- I am an actress, a mimicker, a sham creature - me… how I do loathe my most impotent and unpoetical craft!
- A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity-he is continually in for-and filling some other Body…
- Today I am full of, as Ogden Nash would say, "unpoetical material"; tonight Ester and Elisabeth are sitting in the room reading and talking poetry.
adverb The cornerstone mission for Prometheus is a spacecraft descriptively, if unpoetically, called Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter. Example sentencesExamples - Once the ‘Trilogie’ was pressed in picture discs and bound in a box, Ulver abandoned Black Metal to wax unpoetically on William Blake.
- Rather unpoetically, ‘Plain Layne ‘creator Odin Soli is an average 35-year-old man who lives with his wife and two kids in Woodbury.’
- Julia Stiles is a lovely and determined Viola, but monotonously and unpoetically spoken.
- Dr de Grey is a promoter of the Methuselah Mouse Prize, a competition to produce, by medical intervention, the oldest living mouse (the record holder to date, unpoetically named Mouse GHR-KO 11C, hung on for 1,819 days).
Definition of unpoetic in US English: unpoeticadjectiveˌənpōˈedikˌənpoʊˈɛdɪk Not having a style of expression characteristic of poetry. 无诗意的 the modern version of the Bible is entirely unmemorable and unpoetic Example sentencesExamples - Producer David Selznick treated Vittorio De Sica's Stazione Termini the same way, chopping languid scenes to leave a lean but unpoetic core.
- Kelsey Grammer was not awful, merely unpoetic, untragic, uninteresting.
- Gadsby's signature gingered butternut squash and lobster soup tasted uninterestingly sweet, its soft ‘cloud’ of almond-flavored egg white too strident, its ‘hazelnut veil’ an unpoetic dusting of pulverized nuts.
- Things get incredibly bizarre and life-threatening for Dent from now on, surrounded as he and his friends are by unpoetic, greasy monsters, depressed robots, a planet construction yard, talking mice, a total-perspective gun and so on.
- And this is what the term editor can do, unpoetic as may be.
- That ‘something real ‘- demystified empirical, disciplined, unpoetic, unfanciful, formal criticism - presented itself in the writings of Greenberg.’
- He is either a complete chancer or some kind of neglected genius (as the artist and promoter Richard Demarco puts it, an ‘alchemist’ taking ‘ordinary, run-of-the-mill, unpoetic information and turning it into gold’).
- There was a good deal of cheering after the final frenetic dash, eliciting as an encore a muddled and unpoetic account of Chopin's delicately arpeggiated Étude in E flat.
- With a sad shrug they then quickly munched down on a piece of lifeless unemotional unpoetic babycorn.
- Joachim Kaiser, writing in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, feels that Breth totally missed the mark: ‘So soberingly artificial, so compulsively jaunty, unpoetic and empty.’
- Lyrically, the album matches its musical dead weight with a string of unpoetic clichés - maybe the lunkheads who fill arenas didn't get Chris Martin's ramblings about spies and scientists.
- Exactly, from your stand-point it does, but from mine, being as unpoetic as you can get, I see it as an extremely difficult one.
- On the contrary, the raw and prolix language of his novels is unabashedly unpoetic and polemical.
- Writing was his favourite pastime, pedantic, unpoetic stuff dealing with politics, history, education.
- The name ‘United Provinces of America’ would be correct, but is irredeemably unpoetic.
- It hovers so close because like life, it's often unfair, unpoetic, plain contradictory, and retrospectively embarrassing - few of Darnielle's stories have chronicled passions so unadorned and believable.
- Many felt that he rarely revealed the ‘whole person’: he remained unconvinced that such an inherently unpoetic entity could be said to exist.
- As always her diction is sparse, almost unpoetic.
- The freewheeling breadth that enables Murray to include it is one of his best qualities and serves as a welcome reminder that there is still poetry in vernaculars, and poetry too in things that we have come to consider unpoetic.
- Silliman approaches the history of this community through the stories of her ‘foremothers’, an unpoetic term for such poetically named women as Ruby, Flower and Farah.
Synonyms unimaginative, uninspired, matter-of-fact, dull, dry, humdrum, mundane, pedestrian, heavy, plodding, lifeless, dead, spiritless, lacklustre, undistinguished, stale, jejune, bland, insipid, vapid, vacuous, banal, hackneyed, trite, literal, factual, unemotional, unsentimental, clear, plain, unadorned, unembellished, unvarnished, monotonous, deadpan, flat |