Definitions for Romantic
roʊˈmæn tɪkRo·man·tic

Princeton's WordNet(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. romanticnoun

   a soulful or amorous idealist

2. romanticist, romanticadjective

   an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism

3. romantic, romanticist, romanticisticadjective

   belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts

   "romantic poetry"

4. amatory, amorous, romanticadjective

   expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance

   "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride"

5. quixotic, romantic, wild-eyedadjective

   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"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. romanticnoun

   A person with romantic character

2. romanticnoun

   A person who is behaving romantically

   Oh, flowers! You're such a romantic.

3. romanticadjective

   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.

4. romanticadjective

   Fictitious, imaginary.

5. romanticadjective

   Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person).

   Mary sighed, knowing her ideals were far too romantic to work in reality.

6. romanticadjective

   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.

7. romanticadjective

   Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.

   Their kiss started casually, but it slowly turned romantic.

8. Romanticadjective

   Of or pertaining to Romance.

9. Romanticadjective

   Of or pertaining to Romanticism.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Romanticadjective

   of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking

2. Romanticadjective

   entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind

3. Romanticadjective

   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. Romanticadjective

   characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape

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1. Romantic

   "Romantic" is a song recorded by Karyn White. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 2, 1991, making it her biggest hit to date. "Romantic" was also Karyn White's fourth number one on the Hot Black Singles chart. She recorded it with her then-husband Terry Lewis and Jimmy Jam and it became a huge success, replacing Mariah Carey's "Emotions" on November 2, 1991.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Romantic

   rō-man′tik, adj. pertaining to or resembling romance: fictitious: extravagant, wild: fantastic: sentimental: imaginative.—adv. Roman′tically.—ns. Roman′ticism, the revolt from the severity, pedanticism, and commonplaceness of a classical or pseudo-classical to a more picturesque, original, free and imaginative style in literature and art, marking the close of the 18th century: romantic feeling; Roman′ticist; Roman′ticness.

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1. romantic

   Of or pertaining to romance.

   My brother is very romantic and does kind, loving and caring acts for his wife.

   Submitted by MaryC on January 19, 2017  

Matched Categories

1. • Idealist

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Romantic' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4342

2. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Romantic' in Adjectives Frequency: #593

How to pronounce Romantic?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say Romantic in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Romantic in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Romantic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Romantic in a Sentence

1. Michael Massaia:

   There's a bit of a romantic kind of element in just the way I like to view things, it's exciting to me when you can do something so simple as basically just inverting something, and it takes on this whole other life.

2. Anuj Somany:

   A romantic guy is a real lunatic

3. Rene Redzepi:

   But most of the times we are out now foraging for work, we go there and it's like harvest time. It isn't as romantic as you think where you are with your little wooden basket, picking things while listening to music and soaking in the sun.

4. Lionel Trilling:

   Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ideals, of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax.

5. Margaret Anderson:

   In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

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