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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ROMAN'TIC, a.
1. Pertaining to romance, or resembling it; wild; fanciful; extravagant; as a romantic taste; romantic notions; romantic expectations; romantic zeal.
2. Improbably or chimerical; fictitious; as a romantic tale.
3. Fanciful; wild; full of wild or fantastic scenery; as a romantic prospect or landscape; a romantic situation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: French romantique, from obsolete romant romance, from Old French romanz Date: 1650 1. consisting of or resembling a romance 2. having no basis in fact ; imaginary 3. impractical in conception or plan ; visionary 4. a. marked by the imaginative or emotional appeal of what is heroic, adventurous, remote, mysterious, or idealized b. often capitalized of, relating to, or having the characteristics of romanticism c. of or relating to music of the 19th century characterized by an emphasis on subjective emotional qualities and freedom of form; also of or relating to a composer of this music 5. a. having an inclination for romance ; responsive to the appeal of what is idealized, heroic, or adventurous b. marked by expressions of love or affection c. conducive to or suitable for lovemaking 6. of, relating to, or constituting the part of the hero especially in a light comedy • romantically adverb II. noun Date: 1679 1. a romantic person, trait, or component 2. capitalized a romantic writer, artist, or composer

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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. Derivatives: romantically adv. Etymology: romant tale of chivalry etc. f. OF f. romanz ROMANCE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(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

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Fanciful, imaginative, ideal, extravagant, fantastic, wild. 2. Fictitious, improbable, chimerical, imaginary, fantastic. 3. Wildly picturesque, fantastic.

Moby Thesaurus

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