About The Word Romantic
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Romantic
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What's The Definition Of Romantic?
[n] a soulful or amorous idealist
[n] an artist of the romantic period or someone influenced by romanticism [adj] expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride" [adj] 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" [adj] belonging to or characteristic of romanticism or the Romantic movement in the arts; "romantic poetry" Synonyms | Synonyms for Romantic: amatory | amorous | impractical | loving | quixotic | romanticist | romanticist | romanticistic | wild-eyed Related Terms | Find terms related to Romantic: See Also | artist | creative person | dreamer | idealist Romantic In Webster's Dictionary \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}.
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