Meanings
adjectiveantipoetic (comparative more antipoetic, superlative most antipoetic)
comparative more antipoetic · superlative most antipoetic
- Opposed to poetry.
It is very hard to see Plato as an antipoetic scientist, for Plato was himself a poet, communicating his ideas in allegorical and mythic form.
1982, Richard Olson, Science Deified and Science Defied
Origin
Translations
Portuguese antipoético
- antipoéticoopposed to poetry
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