| a. | 1. | Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp. |
| 2. | Fitted to be sung to the lyre; | |
| 3. | expressing deep personal emotion; - said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet; | |
| n. | 1. | A lyric poem; a lyrical composition. |
| 2. | A composer of lyric poems. | |
| 3. | A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; - used chiefly in the plural. | |
| 4. | The words of a song. |
| Noun | 1. | lyric - the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language" |
| 2. | lyric - a short poem of songlike quality Synonyms: lyric poem | |
| Verb | 1. | lyric - write lyrics for (a song) |
| Adj. | 1. | lyric - expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance" Synonyms: lyrical |
| 2. | lyric - used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range; "a lyric soprano" Antonyms: dramatic - used of a singer or singing voice that is marked by power and expressiveness and a histrionic or theatrical style; "a dramatic tenor"; "a dramatic soprano" | |
| 3. | lyric - relating to or being musical drama; "the lyric stage" | |
| 4. | lyric - of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way); "lyric poetry" |
| LYRIC - Language for Your Remote Instruction by Computer. A CAI
language implemented as a Fortran preprocessor. ["Computer Assisted Instruction: Specification of Attributes for CAI Programs and Programmers", G.M. Silvern et al, Proc ACM 21st Natl Conf (1966)]. |