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romantic |
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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