[
US
/ˈɫɪɹɪk/
]
[ UK /lˈɪɹɪk/ ]
[ UK /lˈɪɹɪk/ ]
NOUN
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the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number
his compositions always started with the lyrics
the song uses colloquial language
he wrote both words and music - a short poem of songlike quality
ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way)
lyric poetry -
expressing deep emotion
the dancer's lyrical performance -
relating to or being musical drama
the lyric stage -
used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range
a lyric soprano
VERB
- write lyrics for (a song)
How To Use lyric In A Sentence
- Andrews assumes that the lyric poet's freedom to dissent is only the freedom to say ‘yes’ to the American ideology - individualism.
- This camp and sassy pop track comes complete with bitter and twisted lyrics and a hint of europop. The Sun
- After the almost funereal beginning of the first movement, the clarinets introduce a lyric second theme, which is treated in the graceful manner of a siciliana. NPR Topics: News
- His songs had gone from sublime to bizarre, compounded by his friendship with oddball lyricist Van Dyke Parks.
- For the whole night, under the influence of a hallucinogen called yagé, the healer sings his song the power of which is due not to words, lyrics, or poetry.
- Beddoes as a writer of brief lyric poems, songs exhumed from the bodies of his dramas, and for the bizarre, sprawling Death's Jest Book. Introduction
- A compelling storyteller with many voices lyric, operatic and diaristic, Ms. Snyder is often provocative; occasionally didactic or off-key. The Lady of the Wild Things
- ‘Maria Maria Maria’ is simply gorgeous - a dark, reverb-soaked slab of despondency with a lyrical combination of absurdism and sincerity that could only have come from Merritt.
- In the tome, full of glamorous soft-focus pictures of the footballer, he waxes lyrical about the art of seduction, with fish his favourite weapon for luring girlfriends from the dining room to the boudoir.
- Watson had grown up on the rocky coast of New Brunswick in a village with the lyrical name Saint Andrews by the Sea. The Whale Warriors