romantic

Plural: romantics

Noun

• A person inspired by or prone to romantic ideas; an idealist.
• a soulful or amorous idealist
• an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism
• A person with romantic character (a character like those of the knights in a mythic romance).
• A person who is behaving romantically (in a manner befitting someone who feels an idealized form of love).

Adjective

• belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts
  • "romantic poetry"

Adjective Satellite

• expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance
  • "a romantic adventure"
  • "a romantic moonlight ride"
• not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
  • "a romantic disregard for money"

Adj

• Of a work of literature, a writer etc.: being like or having the characteristics of a romance, or poetic tale of a mythic or quasi-historical time; fantastic.
• Fictitious, imaginary.
• Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person).
• Having the qualities of romance (in the sense of something appealing deeply to the imagination); invoking on a powerfully sentimental idea of life; evocative, atmospheric.
• Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.
• Alternative letter-case form of Romantic
• Experiencing romantic attraction.

Examples

• Mary sighed, knowing her ideals were far too romantic to work in reality.
• Oh, flowers! You're such a romantic.
• The true ROMANTIC in Scrabble always hopes for a seven-letter word, even with a terrible rack.
• Their kiss started casually, but it slowly turned romantic.

Synonyms

amatory, amorous, quixotic, romanticist, romanticistic, wild-eyed, allo, alloromantic

Antonyms

classicist, antiromantic, aromantic, nonromantic, nonsexual, platonic, unromantic

Anagrams of romantic