romantic

Definition of romantic in English English dictionary: Of or pertaining to Romanticism; Of or pertaining to Romance; Passionate and imaginative rather than structured; A person who is behaving romantically
Oh, flowers! You're such a romantic.; A person with romantic character; Idealistic yet impractical
Mary sighed, knowing her ideals were far too romantic to work in reality.; Concerned with, or conducive to, romance and love
Their kiss started casually, but it slowly turned romantic.; {a} wild, irregular, improbable, false; {i} fanciful or imaginative person; one who is preoccupied with love and passion; follower of the Romantic style in literature and art; One of the classical style periods, lasting from about 1815 to 1900; belonging to or characteristic of romanticism or the Romantic movement in the arts; "romantic poetry"; not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state"; 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; expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride"; a soulful or amorous idealist belonging to or characteristic of romanticism or the Romantic movement in the arts; "romantic poetry; an artist of the romantic period or someone influenced by romanticism; A romantic play, film, or story describes or represents a love affair. It is a lovely romantic comedy, well worth seeing. romantic novels; Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape; the period of music between the early to mid 1800's and the early 1900's; the European tendency, in the art, music and literature of the early 19th century, to dramatize and exalt human emotion and to idealize nature; disapproval 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 A romantic is a person who has romantic views. You're a hopeless romantic. realist; 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. + romantically ro·man·ti·cal·ly the romantically named, but very muddy, Cave of the Wild Horses; Romantic means connected with sexual love. He was not interested in a romantic relationship with Ingrid. + romantically ro·man·ti·cal·ly We are not romantically involved; a philistine who never gets old; he is a mover of progress Tousled hair, goggled eyes and other consequences of a high speed life are just stereotypes; Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind; a period of music, art, and literature (mostly the 1800's and beginning of the 1900's) that's often characterized by the unabashed expression of emotion; {s} having a loving or passionate quality; fanciful, imaginary, impractical; 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; 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; Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking; a soulful or amorous idealist; A fictional mode in which the chief characters live in a I world of marvels (naive romance), or in which the mood is elegiac or idyllic and hence less subject to social criticism than in the mimetic modes The general tendency to present myth and metaphor in an idealized human form, midway between undisplaced myth and "realism "; musical period from early 19th century to early 20th century; more towards imaginative, idiosyncratic works; romantical; romancy; sentimental
Romantic period: the musical period of time following the Classical period falling between about 1830 and the start of the twentieth century
romantic friendship: An intensely emotional love relationship between two unrelated people, in which sexuality is unimportant and typically absent, but there is greater physical affection or poetic communication than is typical for friendship
Romantic Movement: a group of writers, artists etc. in English and Euorpean literature, art, and music, who followed their feelings and emotions rather than logical thought or reason, and who preferred wild, natural beauty to things made by people. It first became popular in the late 18th century
Romantic movement: 18th-19th century movement in literature and the fine arts stressing personal emotion and freedom from rules of form
romantic adventure: adventure undertaken for romance
romantic connection: romantic relationship, passionate connection
New Romantic: A person involved in the New Romanticism movement
Romantically: romanticly
romant: A romaunt
romantically: in a romantic manner; "they were romantically linked"
romantically: in a romantic manner; "she fantasized romantically about eloping wiht her boyfriend"
romantically: in a romantic manner; passionately, with love and emotion; fancifully, unrealistically
romantically: In a romantic way
romantically: in a romantic manner; "she fantasized romantically about eloping wiht her boyfriend
romantics: plural of romantic

romantic

Hyphenation

ro·man·tic

Turkish pronunciation

rōmäntîk

Synonyms

non-platonic, adventurous, amorous, bathetic, charming, chimerical, chivalrous, colorful, corny, daring, dreamy, enchanting, erotic, exciting, exotic

Antonyms

pragmatic, realistic, unromantic

Pronunciation

/rōˈmantək/ /roʊˈmæntɪk/

Etymology

() Derived from Old French romant, the oblique case of Old French romanz (pronounced romants).2009, Picoche, Jacqueline; Jean-Claude Rolland, “Annexe IV, roman”, in Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert:1950, Migliorini, Bruno; Aldo Duro, “romantico”, in Prontuario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Paravia: See also French roman (noun).