Romantic
[rə(ʊ)'mæntɪk] or [ro'mæntɪk]
Definition
(noun.) a soulful or amorous idealist.
(adj.) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts; 'romantic poetry' .
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Definition
(a.) 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.) Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.
(a.) 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.
(a.) Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape.
Checker: Terrance
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Fanciful, extravagant, sentimental, fantastic, wild, chimerical, Quixotic.
Editor: Ramon
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fabulous, rhapsodical, wild, extravagant, fanciful, fictitious, sentimental
ANT:Historical, literal, truthful, unromantic, unvarnished, unadorned
Typist: Ruth
Definition
adj. pertaining to or resembling romance: fictitious: extravagant wild: fantastic: sentimental: imaginative.—adv. Roman′tically.—ns. Roman′ticism the revolt from the severity pedanticism and commonplaceness of a classical or pseudo-classical to a more picturesque original free and imaginative style in literature and art marking the close of the 18th century: romantic feeling; Roman′ticist; Roman′ticness.
Checked by Hayes
Examples
- Miss Vye's family is a good one on her mother's side; and her father was a romantic wanderer--a sort of Greek Ulysses. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It _is_ romantic, but it is also right. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Another romantic. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He was worldly, and she, perhaps, romantic. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The sudden and romantic appearance of his son in the lists at Ashby, he had justly regarded as almost a death's blow to his hopes. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But she can pet and comfort him after I'm gone, and so cure him of this romantic notion. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- You would think it romantic to be walking with a person fat and scant o' breath if I were Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It can't be romantic, then? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Eustacia had frequently told him of Charley's romantic attachment. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- This gives the edifice the romantic appearance of having been riddled with cannon-balls, and imparts to it a very warlike aspect. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I am not romantic. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His gallantry to my Lady, which has never changed since he courted her, is the one little touch of romantic fancy in him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Gracious--how romantic! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I am not romantic fool enough to further the fortune, or avert the fate, of one who is likely to be a successful obstacle between me and my wishes. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- You seem to have passed your life in being adopted, said Maurice, who was deeply interested in this romantic history. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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