liquid vs lyrical

liquid

adj
  • Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones. 

  • Belonging to a class of consonants comprised of the laterals and the rhotics, which in many languages behave similarly. 

  • Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy. 

  • Fluid and transparent. 

  • Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure. 

  • Easily sold or disposed of without losing value. 

noun
  • A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid. 

  • Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r. 

lyrical

adj
  • Appropriate for or suggestive of singing. 

  • Expressive of emotion. 

How often have the words liquid and lyrical occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )