unpoetical

English

Etymology

From un- + poetical.

Adjective

unpoetical (comparative more unpoetical, superlative most unpoetical)

1. not poetical
   • 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “III. The Persians”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 84:

     […] 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.

Related terms

• unpoetic

Anagrams

• cupelation, peculation