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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
romantic
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a romantic cliché (=something romantic that is rather boring because many people do it)
▪ Giving a girl red roses is a bit of a romantic cliché.
a romantic comedy
▪ 'Four weddings and a Funeral' is a well-known romantic comedy.
a romantic dinner (=for two people in a romantic relationship)
▪ Clive and Denise were enjoying a romantic dinner for two in a quiet French restaurant.
a romantic drama (=about a romance)
▪ It is a wartime romantic drama.
a romantic ideal
▪ I gave up my romantic ideal of love at the age of nineteen.
a romantic notion (=one that is based on how you want something to be, not how it is in real life)
▪ He rejected the romantic notion of rugby as a game for gentlemen.
detective/romantic/historical etc novel
▪ a newly published science fiction novel
hopeless romantic/materialist/drunk etc
▪ She was a hopeless romantic, always convinced that one day she would meet the man of her dreams.
romantic comedy
romantic love
▪ Romantic love was not always the reason for marriage.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attachment
▪ It is not just a romantic attachment between two individuals to the exclusion of the world at large.
▪ I know I should not allow one of my dearest friends to discover so late on of my romantic attachment ....
▪ Again, I am not just talking about romantic attachments, but also about simple friendships.
▪ And 46 percent of the under-25s said they didn't view marriage as their last romantic attachment.
comedy
▪ There will be fewer big action pictures and more romantic comedies.
▪ This mutual stretching of personas is what works best in the new romantic comedy about a couple of blue-collar thieves.
▪ It is neither a romantic comedy in the vein of Four Weddings nor a warm-hearted tale about Sheffield steel workers.
▪ It is a romantic comedy, and I play a really bad person.
▪ Once, coming back from New York, we were all watching a romantic comedy.
▪ The problem seems to be that Cleese and co-writer Iain Johnstone have taken the featherweight demands of the romantic comedy to heart.
▪ They want to make screwball romantic comedies but they wind up producing sitcoms that look lost without a laugh track.
▪ This surprisingly funny, reverse-Cyrano lark is witty, wise and the most romantic comedy so far this year.
fantasy
▪ The romantic fantasy world that she had entered when she left the train with Ludo was dissolving in the light of reality.
▪ These somewhat steamy romances feature a variety of contemporary problems all solved within an atmosphere of romantic fantasy.
▪ She told herself sternly that she must shake off this tendency towards romantic fantasy.
fiction
▪ In short, a romantic fiction of unashamed sentimentality.
▪ The earlier feminist critics such as McRobbie and Garber argued that girls learned their roles partly through romantic fiction and girls' magazines.
▪ I saw a picture of Jane Asher in the same suit at a romantic fiction judging evening.
figure
▪ As well as admiring Modigliani's talent, Zborowski found him a romantic figure, living a life he would have liked to lead.
▪ She was not exactly a romantic figure.
▪ You were a romantic figure, come to restore our fortunes.
hero
▪ Sir Anthony Hopkins says it's a privilege to play a romantic hero at 55.
▪ Terry, after all, is no romantic hero.
▪ Hornblower is not a romantic hero but a hero in spite of himself.
idea
▪ His romantic idea that gangsters closer to reality than the rest of us.
▪ And that romantic idea had to sustain me through the realities of actually working on the 128K Mac....
▪ I got pregnant because you spent all my life filling my head with romantic ideas rather than giving me any practical advice.
interest
▪ Nick Nolte plays the president-to-be, with Greta Scacchi as his romantic interest.
▪ We meet in the Game, and we both know that we have other romantic interests there.
lead
▪ In those days I don't think there was an average looking or homely looking person playing romantic leads.
▪ Woody Allen has been a romantic lead.
▪ He still looked like a romantic lead.
▪ But he's singing like a romantic lead.
love
▪ The reason for this fall is the fact that romantic love can not be sustained without an underlying friendship.
▪ There is also the fact that in our culture romantic love eludes both rational analysis and individual control.
▪ To us the flood of romantic love should be searched for and found before marriage.
▪ Then again, perhaps rough, tough Spacefleet troopers manifested peculiarly understated displays of romantic love.
▪ In addition to romantic love, the major tie that is still operative between male and female is the project of reproduction.
▪ To see them is to believe in love, real old-fashioned romantic love.
▪ Kissing became the gesture of romantic love, and future actors took up the torch.
notion
▪ But I'd had my suspicions and didn't share his romantic notion of a farewell from anonymous royalty.
▪ Of course, it takes a lot more than a romantic notion to open and sustain a successful restaurant.
▪ De Gaulle's romantic notions were balanced by a harsh realism.
▪ It is a gut-level response, based on romantic notions about college sports.
▪ His romantic notions of Oscar Wilde are fully acted out while he stays in this condition.
▪ That romantic notion held sway over me, and probably delayed my perception of Clarisa as some one with a medical problem.
▪ However, there is the problem of the romantic notion of pure art devoid of social responsibility.
▪ Living conditions in the countryside had never approached the Arcadian well-being implied in romantic notions of sturdy peasants following the plough.
novel
▪ Escapism isn't just limited to dipping into science fiction or a romantic novel.
▪ As a life, it had the ingredients of a blockbuster romantic novel or epic costume film.
▪ You've been reading too many romantic novels, she told herself.
▪ It was under this imprint that the light romantic novels were issued which constituted the staple fare of Lane's circulating libraries.
▪ Looking back now they might have been playing out the rôle of characters from some nineteenth-century romantic novel.
▪ She loved to dress in expensive, eye-catching clothes and enjoyed reading romantic novels.
▪ They are, however, rather more explicit in their demands of the romantic novel.
novelist
▪ The romantic novelist Dame Barbara Cartland has joined the battle to save an eleventh century abbey.
▪ One of the guests was a rather fey romantic novelist.
relationship
▪ It was a habit he had that confirmed to Ruth that a romantic relationship with him could never be.
▪ The panel consisted of four women, all of whom had had a romantic relationship as an undergraduate with a professor.
story
▪ As a postscript to my days in Port Said, perhaps I can tell one brief, romantic story.
▪ Romance readers' advisory service is connecting the romance reader with the proper romantic story.
▪ You can not sit back in your little room writing a nice romantic story about loving couples.
▪ Her reasons for and the results of her actions form the plot of this romantic story.
view
▪ She rejects a purely romantic view of the relations of men and women.
▪ As a raft of scientists have now informed me, the Rousseauian romantic view of allergies is way off.
▪ Crossing the bridge, look back at the romantic view of the palaces backing on to the canal.
▪ Although he was a native New Yorker, like many denizens of that city he had a romantic view of country life.
▪ The new socialist criminology of the 1960s and 1970s, however, marked a return to the more romantic view.
▪ Her upbringing had not encouraged a romantic view of life.
vision
▪ But I doubt that such a romantic vision really matches the truth.
▪ The romantic vision of things to come is constantly juxtaposed with the seedy realities of the police state.
▪ This is not a romantic vision.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a romantic comedy in which Meg Ryan plays a single mother looking for love
▪ I'm in the most stable romantic relationship I've ever had.
▪ I've always thought it would be so romantic to be serenaded.
▪ Paris is such a romantic city.
▪ We shared a gourmet meal in a romantic, candle-lit restaurant.
▪ We went for a lovely romantic walk by the lake.
▪ Why don't you send him a little romantic card and see how he reacts?
▪ You have a very romantic and foolish idea of science.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again, more men than women endorsed the romantic ideal by answering yes.
▪ His proper names show the same self-conscious striving for a romantic atmosphere.
▪ I saw a picture of Jane Asher in the same suit at a romantic fiction judging evening.
▪ In all of these depictions, parenthood is romantic, rollicking fun in which men are integrally involved.
▪ It is part of the romantic ideal that the promise of a beautiful woman is the promise of eternal perfection.
▪ Like Modigliani, Jeanne was a romantic, a mysterious young woman with soulful blue eyes and a generous mouth.
▪ Others find vinyl recordings warmer, more romantic.
▪ Then a quieter, more romantic one.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I'm a romantic who likes picnics and candlelight dinners.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Against the sensuality of the romantic, Berlin offered the sobriety of the realist.
▪ Jeanne Tripplehorn pairs with Dylan McDermott in this comedy about a ridiculous romantic and an utter realist brought together by destiny.
▪ Struggling with this recalcitrant material, the director, an unreconstructed romantic, slapped on the atmosphere with a lavish hand.
▪ Unlike many of his dancers, Horton was a romantic rather than an ideologue.
▪ Whatever hurts he had suffered in the past, with his Leo open-heartedness, he was one of nature's true romantics.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Romantic

Romantic \Ro*man"tic\, a. [F. romantique, fr. OF. romant. See Romance.]

  1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking.

    Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more absurd, and undeed romantic, than such a persuasion?
    --South.

    Zeal for the good of one's country a party of men have represented as chimerical and romantic.
    --Addison.

  2. Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.

  3. Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets.

  4. Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape.

    Syn: Sentimental; fanciful; fantastic; fictitious; extravagant; wild; chimerical. See Sentimental.

    The romantic drama. See under Drama.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
romantic

"an adherent of romantic virtues in literature," 1827, from romantic (adj.).

romantic

1650s, "of the nature of a literary romance," from French romantique, from Middle French romant "a romance," oblique case of Old French romanz "verse narrative" (see romance (n.)).\n

\nAs a literary style, opposed to classical since before 1812; in music, from 1885. Meaning "characteristic of an ideal love affair" (such as usually formed the subject of literary romances) is from 1660s. Meaning "having a love affair as a theme" is from 1960. Related: Romantical (1670s); romantically. Compare romanticism.

Wiktionary
romantic

a. 1 (context chiefly historical English) Of a work of literature, a writer etc.: being like or having the characteristics of a romance, or poetic tale of a mythic or quasi-historical time; fantastic. (from 17th c.) 2 (context obsolete English) fictitious, imaginary. (17th-20th c.) 3 fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person). (from 17th c.) 4 Having the qualities of romance (in the sense of something appealing deeply to the imagination); invoking on a powerfully sentimental idea of life; evocative, atmospheric. (from 17th c.) n. 1 A person with romantic character (a character like those of the knights in a mythic romance). 2 A person who is behaving romantically (in a manner befitting someone who feels an idealized form of love).

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WordNet
romantic

  1. adj. belonging to or characteristic of romanticism or the Romantic movement in the arts; "romantic poetry" [syn: romanticist, romanticistic]

  2. expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride" [syn: amatory, amorous]

  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" [syn: quixotic, wild-eyed]

romantic

  1. n. a soulful or amorous idealist

  2. an artist of the romantic period or someone influenced by romanticism [syn: romanticist] [ant: classicist]

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Wikipedia
Romantic (song)

"Romantic" is a song by American singer Karyn White from her second studio album Ritual of Love (1991). It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 2, 1991, making it her biggest hit to date. "Romantic" was also White's fourth number-one on the Hot Black Singles chart.

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Usage examples of "romantic".

While I was still hesitating, and wondering how I could get the book conveyed to its romantic owner, suddenly a figure turned the corner of the road, and there was Alastor coming back again.

I headed off what might have been a provoking defence of the computer by asking Albacore to what extent he felt his book might bring Beddoes in out of the cold at the perimeter of British romantic literature and into its warm centre.

For he approached the idea of the sacred vessel, not as did Sir Giles, through antiquity and savage folklore, nor as did the Archdeacon, through a sense of religious depths in which the mere temporary use of a particular vessel seemed a small thing, but through exalted poetry and the high romantic tradition in literature.

In arguing that feelings should guide man on how to live, Rousseau may be seen as one of the originators of the romantic movement.

I then went towards the fountain, but the reader will be astonished by a meeting of the most romantic character, but which is yet the strict truth.

In the analysis of a story like mine--so terribly romantic as it was--his imagination became a prime auxiliar, and with its aid, where a dull man would have paused for fact, with the felicity of truth, it supplied them, and he grew confident and strong in each hour of progression in his labor.

He did not create Pocahontas, as perhaps he may have created the beautiful mistress of Bashaw Bogall, but he invested her with a romantic interest which forms a lovely halo about his own memory.

Belize, with scraggly, narrow streets and romantic houses with protruding balconies, brightly painted doorways, and every window as becrossed with iron bars as if it were a jail.

Hell no, it wasnt worth it, not when you might crimp your own concatenation, what was it to you if some damned son of a bitching stupid fool of an antediluvian got himself beheaded by a progressive world by going around in a dream world and trying to live up to a romantic, backward ideal of individual integrity?

Annabel favored lighter canvases with frolicsome color and romantic subject matter, like the Impressionists or the eighteenth-century French painters Boucher, Fragonard, and Watteau.

The Buena Vista of today is a faithful reproduction of one of the fabled romantic bistros which flourished here in the Twentieth Century.

Did time and space allow, there is much to be told on the romantic side of chocolate, of its divine origin, of the bloody wars and brave exploits of the Spaniards who conquered Mexico and were the first to introduce cacao into Europe, tales almost too thrilling to be believed, of the intrigues of the Spanish Court, and of celebrities who met and sipped their chocolate in the parlours of the coffee and chocolate houses so fashionable in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Still, he thought of her, and went on thinking, involuntarily planning things which he and Nevill Caird would do to help the child, in her romantic errand.

Uncle Cesse were lovers for nearly four years, Bram, that they delighted in scandalizing Society with their very open association, their silly, romantic exploits.

The Count now made enquiry, concerning the method of pursuing the chace among the rocks and precipices of these romantic regions, and was listening to a curious detail, when a horn was sounded at the gate.