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
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 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
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 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 "