ROMANTIC DEFINITIONS - 10 definitions found
romantic adj 1: belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts; "romantic poetry" [syn: romantic, romanticist, romanticistic] 2: expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride" [syn: amatory, amorous, romantic] 3: not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state" [syn: quixotic, romantic, wild- eyed}] n 1: a soulful or amorous idealist 2: an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism [syn: romanticist, romantic] [ant: classicist] romantic - riviro Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary romantic (romantics) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Someone who is romantic or does romantic things says and does things that make their wife, husband, girlfriend, or boyfriend feel special and loved. When we're together, all he talks about is business. I wish he were more romantic... ADJ 2. Romantic means connected with sexual love. He was not interested in a romantic relationship with Ingrid. ADJ: ADJ n • romantically We are not romantically involved. ADV 3. A romantic play, film, or story describes or represents a love affair. It is a lovely romantic comedy, well worth seeing. ...romantic novels. ADJ: ADJ n 4. If you say that someone has a romantic view or idea of something, you are critical of them because their view of it is unrealistic and they think that thing is better or more exciting than it really is. He has a romantic view of rural society... ADJ: usu ADJ n [disapproval] • A romantic is a person who has romantic views. You're a hopeless romantic. ≠ realist N-COUNT 5. Something that is romantic is beautiful in a way that strongly affects your feelings. Seacliff House is one of the most romantic ruins in Scotland. ADJ • romantically ...the romantically named, but very muddy, Cave of the Wild Horses. ADV 6. Romantic means connected with the artistic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which was concerned with the expression of the individual's feelings and emotions. ...the poems and prose of the English romantic poets. ADJ: ADJ n English Explanatory Dictionary romantic reuˈmæntɪk adj. & n. --adj. 1 of, characterized by, or suggestive of an idealized, sentimental, or fantastic view of reality; remote from experience (a romantic picture; a romantic setting). 2 inclined towards or suggestive of romance in love (a romantic woman; a romantic evening; romantic words). 3 (of a person) imaginative, visionary, idealistic. 4 a (of style in art, music, etc.) concerned more with feeling and emotion than with form and aesthetic qualities; preferring grandeur or picturesqueness to finish and proportion. b (also Romantic) of or relating to the 18th-19th-c. romantic movement or style in the European arts. 5 (of a project etc.) unpractical, fantastic. --n. 1 a romantic person. 2 a romanticist. øøromantically adv. [romant tale of chivalry etc. f. OF f. romanz ROMANCE] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Romantic \Ro*man"tic\, a. [F. romantique, fr. OF. romant. See Romance.] 1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more absurd, and undeed romantic, than such a persuasion? --South. Zeal for the good of one's country a party of men have represented as chimerical and romantic. --Addison. 2. Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind. 3. Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets. 4. Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape. Syn: Sentimental; fanciful; fantastic; fictitious; extravagant; wild; chimerical. See Sentimental. The romantic drama. See under Drama. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms romantic a. 1. Fanciful, imaginative, ideal, extravagant, fantastic, wild. 2. Fictitious, improbable, chimerical, imaginary, fantastic. 3. Wildly picturesque, fantastic. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) romantic reuˈmæntɪk adj. 1 imaginary, imagined, fictitious, fictional, ideal, idealized, fancied, fabulous, made-up, dreamed-up, dreamt-up, fantasized, fanciful, fairy-tale, mythical, idyllic, Utopian, illusory: Vivian isn't a real person - she's just Howard's romantic notion of the girl he wants to marry. 2 impractical, visionary, fictitious, unpractical, unrealistic, ideal, abstract, quixotic, chimerical, absurd, extravagant, wild, crackpot, mad: She had romantic notions of how she would be running her own international business by the time she was thirty. 3 nostalgic, sentimental, emotional, sweet, tender, picturesque, exotic, glamorous; mawkish, maudlin, saccharine, Colloq soppy, sugary, mushy, sloppy: I can think of a lot more romantic places than a hamburger bar to eat on our anniversary. Fred hates it when I get too romantic. 4 amorous, affectionate, aroused, impassioned, passionate, libidinous, lustful, over-friendly, Colloq lovey-dovey; fresh: After a drink or two Mike starts getting romantic - if you know what I mean. --n. 5 romanticist, dreamer, Don Quixote, visionary, idealist, sentimentalist: I've never lost my taste for soft lights and sweet music - I suppose I'm just a romantic at heart. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 130 Moby Thesaurus words for "romantic": Don Quixote, Quixote, Utopian, abstract, absurd, adoring, affectionate, airy, allegoric, amorous, aroused, autistic, bathetic, beery, chimerical, cloying, conjugal, crackpot, created, daydreamer, demonstrative, dereistic, devoted, dreamer, dreamer of dreams, emotional, enthusiast, escapist, exotic, extravagant, fabulous, faithful, fancied, fanciful, fantasized, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, filial, fond, fresh, glamorous, gooey, gushing, husbandly, ideal, idealist, idealistic, idealized, idyllic, illusory, imaginary, imagined, impassioned, impractical, in the clouds, invented, languishing, legendary, libidinous, lotus-eater, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, lustful, mad, made-up, maternal, maudlin, mawkish, melting, mushy, mythic, mythical, mythological, mythopoeic, mythopoetic, namby-pamby, nostalgic, nostomanic, otherworldly, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, parabolic, parental, passionate, paternal, picturesque, poetic, prophet, quixotic, rhapsodist, romancer, romancing, romanesque, romanticist, romanticized, saccharine, sappy, seer, sentimental, sentimentalist, sentimentalized, sloppy, slushy, soft, soppy, starry-eyed, sticky, storybook, strange, sugary, sweet, tear-jerking, teary, tender, transcendental, transmundane, unpractical, unrealistic, utopian, utopianist, utopianizer, uxorious, visionary, wifely, wild, wish-fulfilling, wishful thinker |
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