dithyrambic
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or of the nature of a dithyramb, or an impassioned oration.
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wildly irregular in form.
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wildly enthusiastic.
adjective
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prosody of or relating to a dithyramb
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passionately eloquent
Other Word Forms
- dithyrambically adverb
- undithyrambic adjective
Etymology
Origin of dithyrambic
1595–1605; < Latin dithyrambicus < Greek dithyrambikós. See dithyramb, -ic
Example Sentences
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When I left the politicians, I went to the poets; tragic, dithyrambic, and all sorts.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Nor did the times suit his lyrical temperament, which today can express itself in dithyrambic celebrations.
From Time Magazine Archive
For its old-fashioned tone of measured argument and full-throated dithyrambic indignation, it should be one of the great political pamphlets of our time.
From Time Magazine Archive
The "dithyrambic prose" which excited avant-garde blurbists in Tropic of Cancer�and which was frequently tiresome�has been kept in hand by a new sense of structure �a better interplay of narrative and reminiscence.
From Time Magazine Archive
The elegy, in its calm movement, seems to have begun to lose currency when the ecstasy of emotion was more successfully interpreted by the various rhythmic and dithyrambic inventions of the Aeolic lyrists.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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