Romantic

Word ROMANTIC
Character 8
Hyphenation ro man tic
Pronunciations /ɹə-/

Definitions and meanings of "Romantic"

What do we mean by romantic?

Having, showing, expressive of, or conducive to feelings of love or romance. adjective

Imaginative but impractical; visionary. adjective

Not based on fact; idealized or fictitious. adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of artistic romance. adjective

Of or characteristic of romanticism in the arts. adjective

A romantic person. noun

A follower or adherent of romanticism. noun

Pertaining to or resembling romance, or an ideal state of things; partaking of the heroic, the marvelous, the supernatural, or the imaginative; chimerical; fanciful; extravagantly enthusiastic: as, romantic notions; romantic expectations; romantic devotion.

Pertaining to romances or the popular literature of the middle ages; hence, improbable; fabulous; fictitious.

Wildly or impressively picturesque; characterized by poetic or inspiring scenery; suggesting thoughts of romance: as, a romantic prospect; a romantic glen.

In music, noting a style, work, or musician characterized by less attention to the formal and objective methods of composition than to the expression of subjective feeling; sentimental; imaginative; passionate: opposed to classical.

Romantic in music, as elsewhere, is a relative word; it denotes especially the style, tendency, or school represented by Von Weber, Schumann, Chopin, Wagner, and others, and by certain works or characteristics of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schubert.

In architecture and art, fanciful; fantastic; not formal or classical; characterized by pathos. See pathos, 2.

Synonyms Romantic, Sentimental. Sentimental is used in reference to the feelings, romantic in reference to the imagination. Sentimental is used in a sense unfavorable, but in all degrees: as, an amiably sentimental person; the sentimental pity that would surround imprisoned criminals with luxuries. “The sentimental person is one of wrong or excessive sensibility, or who imports mere sentiment into matters worthy of more vigorous thought.” (C. J. Smith, Syn. Disc., p. 680.) Romantic, when applied to character, is generally unfavorable, but in all degrees, implying that the use of the imagination is extravagant. A romantic person indulges his imagination in the creation and contemplation of scenes of ideal enterprise, adventure, and enjoyment. A romantic tendency is often a part of the exuberance of youthful vitality, and may be disciplined into imaginative strength; sentimentality is a sort of mental sickliness or degeneration, and is not easily recovered from.

An adherent of the romantic school. See romantic school, under I. noun

Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal adjective

Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance adjective

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. adjective

Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery. adjective

Of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin: Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Corsican, etc.

A romantic is a person who believes in romanticism, which is like a philosophy on life. Romantics love nature, old things like castles and churches, love poetry and beauty, and have a tendency to get carried away by ideas. This can be both bad and good, as most of the original romantics stood up for their beliefs and greatly helped England, but also went to help people in revolutions and got killed. They also tend to get randomly depressed, but this is because the weather and colors and beatiful things make them act differently than others. Urban Dictionary

To be Romantic: To embody a certain ideal as a partner, or to be creative and innovative in a relationship. In general a view on love, based on novells from the 18th century which introduced the concept of wordlove/word. In current standards often outdated. Urban Dictionary

Adjective: Used to describe a thing, act or object that expresses and requires intimacy beyond what usually occurs in a relationship, highly subjective and eluding understanding outside of said relationship. Noun: Used to refer to people that either are perceived to be able to be romantic more often than others or people that believe in some kind of scheme of live where idealized love has any meaning. Often used derogatory. Urban Dictionary

An illusion of idealised love/situation. Urban Dictionary

A romantic man from Rome Urban Dictionary

Richie the puppy Urban Dictionary

Any Handsome guy who is interested in a female. Urban Dictionary

To burp in Alyce's face. Urban Dictionary

1. A sweet, and sometime naïve person who sees beauty in everything, and loves with their whole heart. 2. Someone who wants to make their partner/lover feel special, so they will do and/or give things that are considered. . .beautiful to prove their love for the other person. . . (I hope that makes sense.) 3. Scenery can be 'romantic'. a Romantic basically means beautiful and/or pure. This is just me thinking out loud. Urban Dictionary

All romantic and shit. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Romantic

The word "romantic" in example sentences

The term romantic is here used in a technical sense; that is, to distinguish the Shakespearian from the Classic Drama. ❋ Hudson, H N (1872)

But as Steve Chapman writes, the truth is that the term romantic boys is not an oxymoron. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Your next film is "Nan Jing East Road," which you describe as a romantic comedy set against the backdrop of Taiwan's economic boom in the 1980s. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Eros was akin to what we call romantic love; philia was mutual likeability, friendship. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The English word romantic is derived from the Sanskrit word Ram, and Shri Ram saw only one thing when he closed his eyes: Sita Devi. ❋ Jeffrey Armstrong (2010)

She also believes the word romantic is not appropriate. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"The San Francisco Examiner" this morning wrote an editorial lamenting what it called the romantic and religious baggage around marriage, and said we have to do away with it. ❋ Unknown (2000)

They find it disquieting for any number of reasons and she was as a novelist what she call a romantic realist. ❋ Unknown (1989)

A shy, usually silent, appreciation of the romantic is allied to a keen desire to probe the unknown. ❋ Unknown (1953)

Inspector; I know it is what you call the romantic stuff; but I think it would have impressed you if you had seen it. ❋ Sax Rohmer (1921)

They were spinsters; but Aurelia, the youngest, had made what she called a romantic marriage and what her sisters termed a mighty poor speculation. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Of the imaginative, sentimental, esthetic, moral, altruistic, sympathetic, affectional symptoms of what we know as romantic love they do not give us the faintest hint. ❋ Henry Theophilus Finck (1890)

And yet the essentials of what we call romantic love are so entirely absent from ancient Hindoo literature that such amorous symptoms as are noted therein can all be readily brought under the three heads of artificiality, sensuality, and selfishness. ❋ Henry Theophilus Finck (1890)

The love of grand, wild scenery, for instance -- what we call romantic scenery -- is as modern as the romantic love of men and women. ❋ Henry Theophilus Finck (1890)

Self-sacrifice, Sympathy, and Affection, are the essential ingredients in that very composite mental state, which we call romantic love. ❋ Henry Theophilus Finck (1890)

Of those referred to above none is so objectionable as the tale of Cephalus and Procris, nor, on the other hand, is any one of them in any way related to what we call romantic love. ❋ Henry Theophilus Finck (1890)

[Lord Byron] was [the greatest] romantic who will ever [live]. ❋ Vauxhallroad (2006)

"That [picnic] was so romantic!!" "He can be so romantic [sometimes]!" ❋ BelgainDSoul (2003)

[Alice]: It was so romantic when Ted and I went catching psychotropic [toads] and smoked them in abandoned factories. Bob: WTF? Alice: I think Bob is a romantic. [Carol]: You'll never know until you try. ❋ Gnarl - The Emperor (2011)

[Romantic] [love is] not always [real]. ❋ Dorz (2006)

[Romantic] ❋ EasternEuropeanSlavLover (2021)

[richie] is so romantic, he [never] has to [change] ❋ Taylor5422 (2011)

"[OMG] [Justin] is so [Romantic], He said 'Hi' to me" ❋ DreMtl (2007)

"Buuurp.", "[Oh], [I love you too]." ❋ Jarred Mack (2005)

[Exp].1: "Johnny is such a romantic." Exp.2: "Johnny was so romantic when he asked [Marie] to marry him." Exp.3: "That [sunset] was so romantic. . ." ❋ Ladynightshade (2015)

[Baby], this [trip] is romantical. ❋ ::Jules:: (2006)

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