of or relating to measurement of or in poetic metre
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
met•ri•cal /ˈmɛtrɪkəl/USA pronunciation also metric,
adj.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Poetryrelating to or composed in meter.
- Weights and Measuresrelating to measurement.
met•ri•cal
(me′tri kəl),USA pronunciation adj.
met′ri•cal•ly, adv.
met•ri•cism
(me′trə siz′əm),USA pronunciation me•tric•i•ty
(me tris′i tē, mi-),USA pronunciation n.
- Poetrypertaining to meter or poetic measure.
- Poetrycomposed in meter or verse.
- Weights and Measurespertaining to measurement.
- Late Latin metric(us) (see metric2) + -al1
- 1375–1425; late Middle English
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'metrical' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Anglican chant
- Parnassian
- Pindaric
- Psalter
- anapaest
- arsis
- beat
- caesura
- cantata
- catalexis
- cheville
- clickety-clack
- compound time
- cywydd
- dactyl
- descriptive geometry
- dimeter
- ditrochee
- doxology
- envoy
- extrametrical
- fabliau
- falling rhythm
- feminine ending
- foot
- free verse
- gest
- heptameter
- hexameter
- hovering accent
- iamb
- iambic
- ictus
- irrational
- lai
- lay
- length
- limerick
- mantra
- measure
- measured
- metric
- metrical mile
- metrics
- monostich
- monostrophe
- monostrophic
- number
- ode
- outride