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Romantic

adjective

1.

Belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts. Synonyms: romanticist, romanticistic.

2.

Expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance. Synonyms: amatory, amorous. "Amorous glances" , "A romantic adventure" , "A romantic moonlight ride"

3.

Not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic. Synonyms: quixotic, wild-eyed. "A romantic disregard for money" , "A wild-eyed dream of a world state"

noun

1.

A soulful or amorous idealist.

2.

An artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism. Synonym: romanticist. Antonym: classicist.

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"Romantic" Quotes from Famous Books

... in all her pretty, romantic little dreams about kindred feelings and a hundred other delightful ideas, that flutter like singing birds through the fairy land of first love. Such an interlude! to be called on by gruff human voices to give up all the cherished secrets ...

— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... time, the husband had to leave her and the children for war service. While he was away, she fell in with another talented and dissipated Bohemian—a romantic-looking musician very much in the public eye. Very quickly their infatuation for each other was a matter of open comment on the part of the veriest on-looker. As he had the same idea that she had about the rights of the individual, and the same contempt for conventions and conventional people, ...

— Heart and Soul • Victor Mapes (AKA Maveric Post)

... at the romantic looks of the camp, back of which the waterfall came tumbling down. He could hardly wait to eat his dinner before he set to work to secure a fac-simile of the picture, with the party gathered around the fire, ...

— The Outdoor Chums After Big Game - Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness • Captain Quincy Allen

... prospect of fortune waiting for him. These years left, without doubt, an indelible impression on his mind. Mr. Grego, an authority on this artist as well as Gillray, expresses this[12] very happily when he says: "It was the more romantic Paris of Sterne that Rowlandson first viewed, and he seems to have recognised and noted down the characteristics of the same typical personages described by 'Yorick'; their two satirical points of ...

— The Eighteenth Century in English Caricature • Selwyn Brinton

... no evidence to show that la Tour's second marriage proved unhappy, though it is a very unromantic ending to an otherwise very romantic story. His second wife had also been the second wife of Charnisay who was a widower when he married her; her maiden name was Jeanne Motin. Descendants of la Tour by his second marriage are to be found in the families of the d'Entremonts, Girouards, ...

— Glimpses of the Past - History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 • W. O. Raymond

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