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ROMANTIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A soulful or amorous idealist
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("romantic" is a kind of...):
dreamer; idealist (someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism
Synonyms:
romantic; romanticist
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("romantic" is a kind of...):
artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance
Example:
a romantic moonlight ride
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
loving (feeling or showing love and affection)
Derivation:
romance (a relationship between two lovers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
Example:
a wild-eyed dream of a world state
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
impractical (not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters)
Derivation:
romance (a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life)
romanticism (impractical romantic ideals and attitudes)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts
Example:
romantic poetry
Synonyms:
romantic; romanticist; romanticistic
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Romanticism (a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization)
Derivation:
Romanticism (a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization)
Context examples:
It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits; there is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
If it had been Aladdin's palace, roc's egg and all, I suppose I could not have been more charmed with the romantic idea of living in it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She understood their ways, could allow for their ignorance and their temptations, had no romantic expectations of extraordinary virtue from those for whom education had done so little; entered into their troubles with ready sympathy, and always gave her assistance with as much intelligence as good-will.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Without suffering any romantic alarm, in the consideration of their daughter's long and lonely journey, Mr. and Mrs. Morland could not but feel that it might have been productive of much unpleasantness to her; that it was what they could never have voluntarily suffered; and that, in forcing her on such a measure, General Tilney had acted neither honourably nor feelingly—neither as a gentleman nor as a parent.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The scenes in its neighbourhood, Charmouth, with its high grounds and extensive sweeps of country, and still more, its sweet, retired bay, backed by dark cliffs, where fragments of low rock among the sands, make it the happiest spot for watching the flow of the tide, for sitting in unwearied contemplation; the woody varieties of the cheerful village of Up Lyme; and, above all, Pinny, with its green chasms between romantic rocks, where the scattered forest trees and orchards of luxuriant growth, declare that many a generation must have passed away since the first partial falling of the cliff prepared the ground for such a state, where a scene so wonderful and so lovely is exhibited, as may more than equal any of the resembling scenes of the far-famed Isle of Wight: these places must be visited, and visited again, to make the worth of Lyme understood.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
After that, Saturn will not make another appearance in your most romantic sector until January 2047.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I will tell you some of them, for the time has come when a word may set this romantic little head and heart of yours right, on a very serious subject.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I heard of him first in rather a romantic manner, from a lady who owes to him the happiness of her life.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Elinor thought this generosity overstrained, considering her sister's youth, and urged the matter farther, but in vain; common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Whatever I had within me that was romantic and dreamy, was encouraged by so much story-telling in the dark; and in that respect the pursuit may not have been very profitable to me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
