Lakish
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Lakish is an adjective meaning (literature) Characteristic of the Lake poets.
Meaning
(literature) Characteristic of the Lake poets.
More Meanings
- (rare) Wet; moist.
Example Sentences
I know he knowes that watrie lakish hill
These men first gouerned the Citty in her Nonage, and some are of the minde, that they were the first Authors of the Padnaus slight, and their retyrement to the Lakish or marshie Isles, as also of their first building there.
We have next ‘Playhouse Musings,’ by Mr Coleridge—a piece which is unquestionably Lakish—though we cannot say that we recognize in it any of the peculiar traits of that powerful and misdirected genius whose name it has borrowed.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include laky, lakelike, washy, plashy, lush, lamish.
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