Lyric
Lyric adjective - Having a pleasantly flowing quality suggestive of music.
Usage example: they performed a slow, lyric dance for the audience
Musical is a synonym for lyric in melodious topic. In some cases you can use "Musical" instead an adjective "Lyric", when it comes to topics like melodic, songlike.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- The first lyric Oscar Hammerstein II wrote ever for a Broadway show (though without credit), "Make Yourselves At Home" from a forgotten 1917 musical called Furs And Frills, was one of these.
Source: Irrelevant Act Opener - Odd is named for a lyric in "That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)": Things are shaping up to be pretty odd/Little deaths in musical beds
Source: Album Title Drop - This made things problematic for the 2014 film remake of the musical when the lyric was left unchanged while some other lyrics that would be subject to Values Dissonance were cut and/or changed.
Source: Have A Gay Old Time / Theatre
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Musical and Lyric. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lyric/musical
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