Meanings
adjectiveunpoetical (comparative more unpoetical, superlative most unpoetical)
comparative more unpoetical · superlative most unpoetical
- not poetical
[…] in the case of the well-circumstanced narration of the contest at Salamis and of the choral ode, which, unpoetical in its over-wealth of geographical detail, is, in its panoramic marshalling of the conquests of Darius, a threnody on the ruin of his sea empire.
1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “III. The Persians”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 84
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishpoetical
- Englishunpoetical
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APA
unpoetical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpoetical
MLA
“unpoetical.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpoetical. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unpoetical,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpoetical.
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