romantic
Noun · AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Noun (2)
- a soulful or amorous idealist
- an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by RomanticismSynonyms: romanticist
Adjective (3)
- belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts“romantic poetry”Synonyms: romanticistromanticistic
- expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance“her amatory affairs”“amorous glances”“a romantic adventure”“a romantic moonlight ride”Synonyms: amatoryamorous
- not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic“as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood”“a romantic disregard for money”“a wild-eyed dream of a world state”Synonyms: quixoticwild-eyed
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
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. [1913 Webster]
Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more absurd, and undeed romantic, than such a persuasion?— South.[1913 Webster]
Zeal for the good of one's country a party of men have represented as chimerical and romantic.— Addison.[1913 Webster]
2.Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
4.Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape. [1913 Webster]
Syn: Sentimental; fanciful; fantastic; fictitious; extravagant; wild; chimerical. See Sentimental. [1913 Webster]
The romantic drama. See under Drama. [1913 Webster]