romantic
adjective
[ rə(ʊ)ˈmantɪk ]
• conducive to or characterized by the expression of love.
• "a romantic candlelit dinner"
• of, characterized by, or suggestive of an idealized view of reality.
• "a romantic attitude to the past"
Similar:
idyllic,
picturesque,
fairy-tale,
beautiful,
lovely,
charming,
delightful,
pretty,
idealistic,
idealized,
unrealistic,
head-in-the-clouds,
out of touch with reality,
starry-eyed,
optimistic,
hopeful,
visionary,
utopian,
fanciful,
dreamy,
ivory-towered,
impractical,
unpractical,
unworkable,
improbable,
unlikely,
Micawberish,
Panglossian,
• relating to or denoting the artistic and literary movement of romanticism.
• "the romantic tradition"
romantic
noun
• a person with romantic beliefs or attitudes.
• "I am an incurable romantic"
Similar:
idealist,
sentimentalist,
romanticist,
dreamer,
visionary,
utopian,
Don Quixote,
fantasist,
fantasizer,
fantast,
• a writer or artist of the romantic movement.
• "Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the later romantics"
Origin:
mid 17th century (referring to the characteristics of romance in a narrative): from archaic romaunt ‘tale of chivalry’, from an Old French variant of romanz (see romance).
