adj. 1 melodic, song-like, musical, melodious, lyrical Lyric drama is no longer fashionable 2 personal, subjective, individual, idiosyncratic; sentimental, rhapsodic He expresses his own feelings in the lyric poems 3 sweet, dulcet, graceful, silvery, lilting, mellifluous, mellow, light This song sounds best when sung by a lyric tenor
n. 4 lyrics. libretto, book, words Ira Gershwin wrote the lyrics for much of George Gershwin's music