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romantic(adjective)/rəʊˈmæntɪk/ /rəʊˈmæntɪk/- connected with or about love or a sexual relationship
- a romantic candlelit dinner
- a romantic comedy
- romantic stories/fiction
- I'm not interested in a romantic relationship.
- It wasn't even until a hundred or so years ago that the concept of romantic love in marriage gained any real popularity.
- Like every actor starting out in the business, he longed to play dashing romantic leads.
- showing feelings of love
- Why don't you ever give me flowers? I wish you'd be more romantic.
- You're getting quite romantic in your old age!
- I'm hopelessly romantic and dreamy.
- beautiful in a way that makes you think of love or feel strong emotions
- romantic music
- romantic mountain scenery
- romantic images of deserted beaches
- It sounded romantic and exciting to work in the Walled City, but few stuck it more than a few weeks.
- having an attitude to life where imagination and the emotions are especially important; not looking at situations in a realistic way
- a romantic view of life
- When I was younger, I had romantic ideas of becoming a writer.
- a romantic notion of living off the land
- used to describe literature, music or art, especially of the nineteenth century, that is about strong feelings, imagination and a return to nature, rather than reason, order and intellectual ideas
- the Romantic movement
- Keats is one of the greatest Romantic poets.
Word Origin- mid 17th cent. (referring to the characteristics of romance in a narrative): from archaic romaunt ‘tale of chivalry’, from an Old French variant of romanz, based on Latin Romanicus ‘Roman’. (see romance).
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