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lyric
 
Adjective lyric has 4 senses
  1. lyric, lyrical - expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance"
    Antonym: unemotional (indirect, via emotional)
  2. lyric - used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range; "a lyric soprano"
    Antonym:     dramatic
  3. lyric - relating to or being musical drama; "the lyric stage"
  4. lyric - of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way); "lyric poetry"
Noun lyric has 2 senses
  1. lyric, words, language - the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"
    --1 is a kind of text, textual matter
    --1 is a part of song
    --1 has particulars: love lyric
    Derived form: verb lyric1
  2. lyric, lyric poem - a short poem of songlike quality
    --2 is a kind of poem, verse form
    --2 has parts: strophe; antistrophe
    --2 has particulars: ode
Verb lyric has 1 sense
  1. lyric - write lyrics for (a song)
    --1 is one way to     write, compose, pen, indite
    Derived form: noun lyric1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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