Definitions for lyrics

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lyrics lyr·ic

Spelling: [lir-ik]

IPA: /ˈlɪr ɪk/

Lyrics is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in lyrics (cilrsy).

Definitions for lyrics

noun

1. a lyric poem.
2. Often, lyrics. the words of a song.

adjective

1. (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
2. pertaining to or writing lyric poetry:
3. characterized by or expressing spontaneous, direct feeling:
4. pertaining to, rendered by, or employing singing.
5. (of a voice) relatively light of volume and modest in range:
6. pertaining, adapted, or sung to the lyre, or composing poems to be sung to the lyre:

Origin of lyrics

1575-85; Latin lyricus Greek lyrikós. See lyre, -ic

Examples for lyrics

lyric writing has to exist in time … Therefore it must be crystal clear as it goes on.

Tragic, lyric, ironic, dramatic, realistic, surrealistic—a sure winner.

He wrote a thesis on the lyric poetry of our country comparing it with that of Europe.

George would take out his lyric book and acoustic guitar and play us the song we would be working on that day.

In considering it we should come to an understanding of the nature of lyric, the purpose of this essay.

Is there any better Beyoncé lyric to use in response to the most shocking celebrity tape this side of One Night in Paris?

"Hamlet," on the other hand, is almost a lyric; there is no counterpoise to the student-prince.

Ever the showman, he asks if he can play the tape forward, sing the lyric once, play that “backmasked stuff,” then sing that.

Such a poem must have its own immortality in lyric literature.

From the beginning to the end of his career he was as much a lyric poet as a dramatist.