romantic
Meanings
Plural: romantics
Noun
- a soulful or amorous idealist
- an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism
- A person with romantic character (a character like those of the knights in a mythic romance).
- A person who is behaving romantically (in a manner befitting someone who feels an idealized form of love).
Adjective
- belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts
- "romantic poetry"
Adjective Satellite
- expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance
- "a romantic adventure"
- "a romantic moonlight ride"
- not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
- "a romantic disregard for money"
Adj
- Of a work of literature, a writer etc.: being like or having the characteristics of a romance, or poetic tale of a mythic or quasi-historical time; fantastic.
- Fictitious, imaginary.
- Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person).
- Having the qualities of romance (in the sense of something appealing deeply to the imagination); invoking on a powerfully sentimental idea of life; evocative, atmospheric.
- Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.
- Alternative letter-case form of Romantic
- Experiencing romantic attraction.
Origin / Etymology
From romant + -ic, or borrowed from Late Latin romanticus (“(of a poem) having qualities of a romance”). Compare French romantique, which is borrowed from English. Also compare Spanish romántico, Portuguese romântico, Italian romantico, Dutch romantisch, and German romantisch and Romantiker (“a composer of Romantic music”), all of which are borrowed from English or French.
Synonyms
allo, alloromantic, amatory, amorous, quixotic, romanticist, romanticistic, wild-eyed
Antonyms
antiromantic, aromantic, classicist, nonromantic, nonsexual, platonic, unromantic
Scrabble Score: 12
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