Romantic I Stories/Fiction/Comedy Interested Relationship Give Flowers Love

• a romantic candlelit dinner
• romantic stories/fiction/comedy
• i'm not interested in a romantic relationship.
• why don't you ever give me flowers? i wish you'd be more romantic.

romantic

1. connected or concerned with love or a sexual relationship
• a romantic candlelit dinner
• romantic stories/fiction/comedy
• I'm not interested in a romantic relationship.
2. showing feelings of love
• Why don't you ever give me flowers? I wish you'd be more romantic.
3. beautiful in a way that makes you think of love or feel strong emotions
• romantic music
• romantic mountain scenery
• romantic images of deserted beaches
4. 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.
5. used to describe literature, music or art, especially of the 19th century, that is concerned with 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.

Extra Examples

• You’re getting quite romantic in your old age!
• highly romantic notions of honour
• I’m not interested in a romantic relationship.
• Why don’t you ever give me flowers? I wish you’d be more romantic.
• romantic stories/fiction/comedy

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).