Romantic

Definition: Romantic

Romantic

Adjective

1. Belonging to or characteristic of romanticism or the Romantic movement in the arts; "romantic poetry".

2. Expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride".

3. Not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "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 period or someone influenced by romanticism.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "romantic" was first used: 1659. (references)

Etymology: Romantic \Ro*man"tic\, adjective. [French expression romantique, from the Old French expression romant. See Romance.]. (references)

Synonyms: Romantic

Imagination

Romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic, unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic.

Sensibility

Adjective: sensible, sensitive; impressible, impressionable; susceptive, susceptible; alive to, impassionable, gushing; warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted; tender as a chicken; soft, sentimental, romantic; enthusiastic, highflying, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive; excitable; oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned; fastidious.

Crosswords: Romantic

Romanian (notional, romantic, romanticist).

My idea of a perfect date would be a man who takes me to a romantic dinner, and then we walk along the beach barefoot discussing books and--and music and--and movies (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford)

Chapter One. He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved (Manhattan; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

That's soooo romantic. (East Is East; writing credit: Ayub Khan-Din)

They're more romantic. (Dad's Army; writing credit: David Croft; Jimmy Perry)

Your shrieks, my dear, provide a perfect accompaniment to this romantic evening (Leprechaun 4: In Space; writing credit: Dennis A. Pratt)

You like romantic movies (I Can Love You Like That; performing artist: All-4-One)

From the romantic glare (Insensitive; performing artist: Jann Arden)

Well I've never been romantic (Cool Change; performing artist: Little River Band)

Satin sheets are very romantic (Express Yourself; performing artist: Madonna)

What you want is some boombastic romantic fantastic lover (Mr. Boombastic; performing artist: Shaggy)

The Romantic Pipa Tune (1962)

Romantic Youth (1954)

The Romantic Age (1949)

Romantic Nevada (1943)

One Romantic Night (1930)

Romantic (performing artist: Karyn White)

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Books

• Caspar David Friedrich: German Master of the Romantic Landscape--His Life in Paintings (reference)

• Brighter Than the Sun (An Avon Romantic Treasure) (reference)

• Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life: The Private Years (reference)

• The romantic ghost of Greenwich Village : Guido Bruno in his garret (reference)

• Lunatics and lovers; a tribute to the giddy and glittering era of the screen's "screwball" and romantic comedies (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Romantic (reference)

• Romantic Homes (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Romantic Comedy (reference)

• The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Romantic Clarinet Concertos (reference)

• Romantic Flute Concertos (reference)

• Romantic Xmas Songs (reference)

• 25 Romantic Classics (reference)

• Itzhak Perlman - Great Romantic Concertos ~ Beethoven, Bach, Bruch, Mendelsshon, Paganini, Tchaikowsky (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Ottomanelli's Romantic Meal Blackened Chicken Breast in Champagne Sauce (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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A now uncommon and romantic building type, the Beebe Windmill provided mechanization to the grinding of grain. This rare survivor teaches us about the evolution of industrial technologies and the ingenuity of early American craftsman who fashioned the moving parts out of the most readily available material at hand, wood. HABS and HAER documentation provides information for the care and maintenance of structures for which the original drawings typically do not survive. The formats of HAER documentation for this windmill include a written history, photographs, and measured drawings. The selected drawings and photographs shown here demonstrate how the nformation in each format can supplement the other. The photographs record information as the camera sees it in a one-point perspective. The drawings illustrate the grain mill and clarify how its parts fit together, what dimensions they are, and how they interact to grind the grain. West elevation. Photograph by Jet Lowe, 1978. (Reproduction Number: HAER, NY,52-BRIG,4-1). Credit: Library of Congress.

Aunt Emma is so romantic. Credit: Library of Congress.

Alligator pear? : no, Lady, we don't carry them : we ain't what ue'd call romantic ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Gordon Ray, 25 Sutton Place South, New York. Group of romantic bindings. Credit: Library of Congress.

The successful, romantic drama, A grip of steel. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rob't B. Mantell assisted by Miss Marie Booth Russell and a company of players in classic and romantic productions. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chas. H. Yale & Sidney R. Ellis present the German dialect comedian and golden voiced singer, Al. H. Wilson in a new romantic German dialect comedy, The watch on the Rhine by Sidney R. Ellis. Credit: Library of Congress.

Imre Kiralfy's grand romantic spectacle, Venice, the bride of the sea the realization of the greatest conception of the age at Olympia. Credit: Library of Congress.

David Belasco's romantic play, The heart of Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress.

Long Bro's, Pawnee Bill & May Lillie in the great western military romantic play, Madeline of Fort Re[no] the sensation of the 19th century. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Besides this romantic element which we have noticed, there is the social symptom

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Business

Specialty stores increasingly cater to specific end-user groups such as elderly people, yuppies, or focus on styles such as country home, ecologically sound, or romantic style. (references)

Civil Liberties

Egypt

Haidar's book had been the subject of student demonstrations in May 2000. On January 6, the Prime Minister dismissed several Ministry of Culture officials following protests by Islamist members of the People's Assembly regarding three allegedly pornographic books ("Sons of Romantic Sins," by Yasser Sha'aban, "Forbidden Dreams," by Mahmoud Hamed, and "Before and After," by Tawfik Abdel Rahman) published by the Ministry. (references)

Economic History

Italy

The musical influence of Italian composers Monteverdi, Palestrina, and Vivaldi proved epochal; in the 19th century, Italian romantic opera flourished under composers Gioacchino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, and Giacomo Puccini. (references)

Human Rights

Namibia

In mid-June Simpson Mandume, an SFF soldier, shot and killed 21-year-old Heblonia Maliro Tjiti, with whom he reportedly had a romantic relationship. (references)

Minorities

Jordan

Romantic relationships between members of different religions, which may lead to conversion--either to the Muslim or Christian faiths--usually are strongly discouraged by the families. (references)

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Expressions using "romantic": romantic novel ♦ The romantic drama. Additional references.

Beginning with "romantic": romantic-crocean, romantic-fiction, romantic-historical, romantic-individualist, romantic-lookin', romantic-looking, romantic-lyric, romantic-lyrical, romantic-minded, romantic-sounding, romantic-style, romantic-technological.

Ending with "romantic": neo-romantic.

Albanian

romantik (cloak-and-sword, long-haired, romanticist), i zmadhuar (enlarged, exaggerated, exaggerative, hyperbolic, hyperbolical, outre, overdone). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فكرة رومانتيكية, ‏وهمي (airy, airy fairy, astral, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dummy, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, made up, mirage, mythical, notional, paper, phantom, putative, quixotic, subjective, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visionary), ‏عاطفي (affectional, emotional, emotive, intimate, mawkish, moving, overwhelming, passional, passionate, rhapsodic, sentimental, sentimentalist, smoochy, sob, soft, soulful), ‏خيالي (aerial, chimerical, conceptual, fancied, fanciful, fancy, fantast, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figment, ideal, ideational, imaginary, imaginative, impracticable, mythical, notional, quixotic, unreal, utopian, visionary), ‏رومانتيكية (romanticism), ‏رومانسي, ‏شخص رومانتيكي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

романтичен (redolent of romance), романтик (romanticist). (various references)

Chinese 

浪漫 . (various references)

Czech

romantik (dreamer), romantický (poetic, starry eyed), milostný (amatory, amorous). (various references)

Danish

romantisk. (various references)

Dutch

romantisch. (various references)

Esperanto

romantika. (various references)

Farsi 

واهی (Airy, Unreal, Unrealistic, Unsubstantial(Ity)), غیرممکن (Impossible), غریب (Curious, Eccentric, Extravagant, Immigrant, Lonely, Nostalgic, Singular, Stranger, Uncanny, Unco, Unheard, Unmoral, Unusual, Weird, Whimsical, Wonder), تصوری (Brainchild, Conceptual, Imaginable, Imaginary, Unreal, Unrealistic), خیالی (Abstract, Bizarre, Brainchild, Dreamy, Image, Imaginary, Phantom, Poetic, Unreal, Unrealistic, Visionary). (various references)

Finnish

romanttinen. (various references)

French

romantique (romantically, romanticist). (various references)

Frisian

romantysk. (various references)

German

romantisch (poetic, poetical, smoochy). (various references)

Greek 

ρωμαντικόσ (romancer), ρομαντικόσ, ρομαντικός. (various references)

Hebrew 

דמיוני (airy fairy, fabulous, fairy, fancied, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, phantom, unreal, utopian, visionary), רומנטי, רגשני (emotional, sentimental, temperamental). (various references)

Hungarian

romantikus (romanticist), regényes (fictional, novelistic, romantics). (various references)

Indonesian

romantis. (various references)

Italian

romantico (romantically, romanticist, smoochy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

艶っぽい (coquettish, spicy), ロマンス語 (Romance languages, romanticism, romanticist), 浪漫的 , 乙 (2nd in rank, chic, quaint, queer, second sign of the Chinese calendar, spicy, strange, stylish, tasty, witty). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おつ (chic, quaint, queer, spicy, strange, stylish, tasty, witty), ロマンチック , つやっぽい (coquettish, spicy), ろまんてき. (various references)

Korean 

낭만주의. (various references)

Manx

romansagh, far-skeealeragh, druiaghtagh (enchanting, sorcerer, wizard), ashlinagh (phantasmagoric, visionary). (various references)

Papiamen

romántiko. (various references)

Pig Latin

omanticray.(various references)

Portuguese

romântico (novelettish, romanticist, sentimental). (various references)

Romanian

romantic (notional, romanticist), romanesc, romanţios (idyllic), persoanã romanticã, fantastic (arabesque, fabled, fabulous, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fantasticalness, freakish, tall, tremendous, whimsical). (various references)

Russian 

романтичный, романтический, вымышленный (assumed, fictional, fictitious, fictive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

romantičar (romanticist), romantičan. (various references)

Spanish

romantico (romantically), romántico (novelettish, romanticist, sentimental, sugared, sugary). (various references)

Swedish

romantisk (romance). (various references)

Thai

เพ้อฝัน (fanciful, imaginative), เต็มไปด้วยจินตนาการ. (various references)

Turkish

romantik sanatçı, romantik (dreamy, escapist, poet, poetic, poetical, romanesque, romanticist, starry eyed). (various references)

Ukrainian

романтичний (romanesque), романтик (romanticist), фантастичний (airy, arabesque, chimerical, crackpot, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, moonshiny, mythic, mythical). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xa thực tế, như tiểu thuyết; mơ mộng, những lời nói viển vông, nhà thơ lãng mạng, người lãng mạn, lãng mạng viển vông, không thực tế (dreamy, illusory, impractical, theoretic, theoretical, unpractical, unreal), hão huyền (chimerical, illusory, phanstasmal, phantasmic, visionary). (various references)

Welsh

rhamantus. (various references)

romant. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "romantic": romantically, romanticise, romanticised, romanticises, romanticising, romanticism, romanticisms, romanticist, romanticists, romanticization, romanticizations, romanticize, romanticized, romanticizes, romanticizing, romantics. (additional references)

Words ending with "romantic": antiromantic, hyperromantic, necromantic, postromantic, preromantic, superromantic, ultraromantic, unromantic. (additional references)

Words containing "romantic": antiromanticism, antiromanticisms, antiromantics, necromantically, superromanticism, superromanticisms, unromantically, unromanticized. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Romantic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Rimantas, rmantic, Rogatica, rolandic, romanica, romanis, Romanit, romanti, romantice, romantick, romanticx, Romantik, romitic, ronantic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: carotin, mantric, minorca.

-2 letters: action, anomic, aortic, aroint, atomic, atonic, camion, cantor, carton, cation, citron, contra, cortin, craton, macron, manioc, manito, mantic, martin, matron, micron, ration.

-3 letters: acorn, actin, actor, amino, amnic, amnio, amort, antic, cairn, canto, carom, coati, coria, cotan, inarm, intro, macon, macro, manic, manor, matin, micra, micro, minor, moira, narco.

+1 letter: chromatin, cremation, manticore, mortician, romantics.

+2 letters: antidromic, astronomic, chromatins, comparting, craniotomy, cremations, importance, importancy, maceration, machinator, manometric, manticores, matronymic, microtonal, monarchist, monocratic, morganatic, morphactin, morticians, patronymic, unromantic.

+3 letters: actinometer, actinometry, axonometric, calumniator, carcinomata, centimorgan, chrismation, chromatinic, combinatory, comminatory, craniometry, creationism, crimination, demarcation, emancipator, embrocation, euchromatin, gastronomic, harmonicist, imbrication, importances, imprecation, informatics, interatomic, lacrimation, macerations, machinators, matronymics, mercuration, metrication, miscreation, monarchists, monogastric, morphactins, motorcading, multicarbon, necromantic, nonaromatic, nondramatic, nonmetrical, outcharming, outmarching, patronymics, preromantic, reclamation, recombinant, romanticise, romanticism, romanticist, romanticize, trichomonad, trichomonal.