2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Romantic \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}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
romantic
adj 1: belonging to or characteristic of romanticism or the
Romantic movement in the arts; "romantic poetry" [syn:
{romanticist}, {romanticistic}]
2: expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her
amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic
adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride" [syn: {amatory}, {amorous}]
3: 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" [syn: {quixotic}, {wild-eyed}]
n 1: a soulful or amorous idealist
2: an artist of the romantic period or someone influenced by
romanticism [syn: {romanticist}] [ant: {classicist}]
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