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The Meaning of romantic

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking.
  • (a.) Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.
  • (a.) 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.
  • (a.) Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape.

Synonyms

romanticist , romanticist , romanticistic , amatory , amorous , quixotic , wild-eyed

Antonyms

classicist

Rhymes

antic , atlantic , bankatlantic , frantic , gigantic , mantic , midlantic , pedantic , semantic , sycophantic , transatlantic