Definition of Antipoetic

1. Adjective. Opposed to poetry. ¹

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Definition of Antipoetic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antipoetic

antipodagric
antipodagrics
antipodal
antipodal cone
antipodal opposition
antipodals
antipode
antipodean
antipodeans
antipodes
antipodicity
antipoem
antipoems
antipoet
antipoetic (current term)
antipoetry
antipoets
antipoisoning
antipolar
antipole
antipoles
antipolice
antipolitical
antipolitician
antipoliticians
antipolitics
antipollution
antipollutions
antipoor

Literary usage of Antipoetic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Metropolitan (1833)
"... that the world has gone round : that every time has its genius ; that the genius of this time is wholly antipoetic. He throws away thought and energy, ..."

2. Poetics: An Essay on Poetry by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1852)
"It must be evident that there are but three possible states of the mind, the poetic, the unpoetic or prosaic, and the antipoetic or philosophic. ..."

3. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by David Patrick, Robert Chambers (1902)
"... it difficult to see wherein the verses selected by Johnson for special commendation are less commonplace and antipoetic than the rest of the eighteen. ..."

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