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Definition of Romantic
1. Adjective. Belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts. "Romantic poetry"
Partainyms: Romanticism, Romanticism, Romanticism
Derivative terms: Romanticism, Romanticism
2. Noun. A soulful or amorous idealist.
3. Adjective. Expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance. "A romantic moonlight ride"
4. Noun. An artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism.
Generic synonyms: Artist, Creative Person
Antonyms: Classicist
Derivative terms: Romanticism
5. Adjective. Not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic. "A wild-eyed dream of a world state"
Definition of Romantic
1. a. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking.
Definition of Romantic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Romance. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Romanticism. ¹
3. Adjective. (chiefly historical) 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. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
4. Adjective. (obsolete) Fictitious, imaginary. (defdate 17th-20th c.) ¹
5. Adjective. Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person). (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
6. Adjective. 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. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
7. Adjective. Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate. (defdate from 18th c.) ¹
8. Adjective. (alternative form of Romantic) (defdate from 18th c.) ¹
9. Noun. A person with romantic character ¹
10. Noun. A person who is behaving romantically ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Romantic
1. a fanciful person [n -S]
Medical Definition of Romantic
1. 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. Characterised by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape. Synonym: sentimental, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, extravagant, wild, chimerical. Origin: F. Romantique, fr. OF. Romant. See Romance. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Romantic
Literary usage of Romantic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"Had the leaders of the romantic school been men of less genius, this tendency might
... Among masters of the romantic school. Weber stands second to none. ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"This, however, is not easy; for even the Romantic School itself was not ...
Friedrich Schlegel, who, of all the members of the first Romantic School, ..."
3. A History of German Literature by John George Robertson (1902)
"Romantic DRAMA AND PATRIOTIC LYRIC. THE drama was the stepchild of Romanticism ;
the Romantic writers found the lyric, the novel, and even, ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"There were many poems written in blank verse or in Spenserian stanza between this
poet and the work of Gray, whose contribution to the romantic movement is ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Spohr (qv) deserves passing notice as an associate with Weber in the romantic
movement in opera, and as one of the great violinists of his day. ..."
6. Studies in Literature by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1918)
"ON THE TERMS "CLASSICAL AND "Romantic" 1 PROPOSE to say a few words upon two ...
But we cannot draw any such line between "classical" and "romantic" work; ..."
7. A History of German Literature by John George Robertson (1902)
"CHAPTER I. THE Romantic SCHOOL. AT the Court of Weimar, the last night of the
... It is one of the ironies of literary history that the Romantic The Ro- ..."
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