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romantic
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romantic
n.
fanciful or imaginative person; one who is preoccupied with love and passion; follower of the Romantic style in literature and art
adj.
having a loving or passionate quality; fanciful, imaginary, impractical
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Romance
Romance or romantic usually refers to romance (love), love emphasizing emotion over libido. It may also refer to:
Genres
- Hellenistic romance, or Ancient Greek romance, a modern term for the genre of the five surviving Ancient Greek novels
- Chivalric Romance, a genre of medieval and Renaissance narrative fiction
- Romance (music), a type of ballad or lyrical song
- Romancero, the corpus of such Spanish ballads, or a collection of them
- Romance (meter), a metric pattern found in Spanish ballads
- Romanticism, or the Romantic period/era, an artistic and intellectual movement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including
- Romantic music, the musical style used by Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Wagner and other late 18th and 19th-century composers
- Romantic poetry, the poetic style used by Schiller, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth and other late 18th and 19th-century poets
- Romanticism in science, a movement in science during the Romantic period
- Romance novel, a genre of novel that focuses on romantic love
- Romance film, a genre of film of which the central plot focuses on the romantic relationships of the protagonists
- Romantic comedy film, a hybrid genre of film centered on a comic romantic relationship
- Shakespeare's late romances, the later plays of Shakespeare that mix tragic and comedic elements
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romantic
Noun
1. a soulful or amorous idealist
(hypernym) idealist, dreamer
2. an artist of the romantic period or someone influenced by romanticism
(synonym) romanticist
(hypernym) artist, creative person
Adjective
1. belonging to or characteristic of romanticism or the Romantic movement in the arts; "romantic poetry"
(synonym) romanticist, romanticistic
(pertainym) romanticism
2. expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride"
(synonym) amatory, amorous
(similar) loving
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"
(synonym) quixotic, wild-eyed
(similar) impractical
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romantic
n.
romantik; snílek
příd.jm.
romantický; milostný; milenecký; bláznivý; snílkovský
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romantic
Rzecz.
romantyk, romantyczka
Przym.
romantyczny
