of, relating to, imbued with, or characterized by romance
2.
evoking or given to thoughts and feelings of love, esp idealized or sentimental love
a romantic woman
a romantic setting
3.
impractical, visionary, or idealistic
a romantic scheme
4. often euphemistic
imaginary or fictitious
a romantic account of one's war service
5. (often capital)
of or relating to a movement in European art, music, and literature in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, characterized by an emphasis on feeling and content rather than order and form, on the sublime, supernatural, and exotic, and the free expression of the passions and individuality
noun
6.
a person who is romantic, as in being idealistic, amorous, or soulful
7.
a person whose tastes in art, literature, etc, lie mainly in romanticism; romanticist
8. (often capital)
a poet, composer, etc, of the romantic period or whose main inspiration or interest is romanticism
Derived forms
romantically (roˈmantically)
adverb
Word origin
C17: from French romantique, from obsolete romant story, romance, from Old French romansromance