romantic

Meanings

Adjective

• 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.
• Fictitious, imaginary.
• Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person).
• 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.
• Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.
• Alternative of Romantic

Noun

• A person with romantic character (a character like those of the knights in a mythic romance).
• A person who is behaving romantically (in a manner befitting someone who feels an idealized form of love).

Related

Opposite words

• nonromantic, unromantic, antiromantic, aromantic

Origin

• . Compare French romantique, which is borrowed from English. Also compare Spanish romántico, Portuguese romântico, Italian romantico, Dutch romantisch, and German romantisch and Romantiker, all of which are borrowed from English or French.