# romantic

Pronunciation: say "roh-MAN-tik" US /ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/, UK /ɹəʊˈmæntɪk/

## Adjective

1. Relating to love and attraction between people, or expressing or inspiring such feelings; (of a person) loving and affectionate.
   - Simple: Connected with love and attraction between people, or showing or creating those feelings.
   - _She tucked a romantic note inside the pocket of his coat._
   - _The couple chose a quiet, romantic restaurant for their anniversary._
2. Having qualities that appeal deeply to the imagination; evocative and atmospheric.
   - Simple: Beautiful in a way that stirs strong feelings and the imagination.
   - _Mist gave the ruined abbey a romantic, otherworldly air._
   - _Her photographs captured the romantic grandeur of the highlands._
3. Alternative letter-case form of Romantic: relating to Romanticism, the late 18th- and 19th-century movement in art, music and literature.
   - Simple: Another spelling of Romantic: about the movement in art, music, and writing of the late 1700s and 1800s.
   - _His paintings belong firmly to the romantic tradition of the nineteenth century._
   - _Scholars trace the romantic movement back to the late eighteenth century._
4. Of an idea, far-fetched and unrealistic; of a person, given to fanciful, sentimental, and impractical views.
   - Simple: Not realistic or practical, with dreamy ideas that are unlikely to work.
   - _Their romantic notion of farming ignored the harsh economics involved._
   - _He was far too romantic to ever keep to a budget._
6. Of a literary work or writer: having the qualities of a romance, a poetic tale set in a mythic or quasi-historical age; fantastic.
   - Simple: Describing a story or writer like an old poetic tale of heroes and faraway times.
   - _The novel adopts a romantic style, recounting the deeds of legendary knights._
   - _Critics called his early verse romantic, steeped in chivalry and myth._

## Noun

5. A person with romantic tendencies, especially one who holds idealized, sentimental views of love or life, or who readily expresses affection.
   - Simple: A person who has idealistic, dreamy ideas about love or life, or who likes to show love in sweet ways.
   - _She married a hopeless romantic who plans a surprise every weekend._
   - _As a true romantic, he believed every small gesture of love mattered._

## Adjective

7. Fictitious; existing only in imagination rather than in reality. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Made up and not real, existing only in stories or the mind.

## Origin

This comes from "romant" plus the suffix "-ic", or was borrowed from Late Latin "romanticus", meaning "(of a poem) having the qualities of a romance". Related forms in French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, and German were themselves borrowed from English or French.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/romantic (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).