romanticadjective
uk/rəʊˈmæn.tɪk//rəˈmæn.tɪk/us/roʊˈmæn.t̬ɪk/B1 relating to love or a close loving relationship:
a romantic novel/comedy
You used to be so romantic, but now you never tell me that you love me.
I suppose he is quite romantic - he sends me flowers on my birthday and tells me I'm looking beautiful and so on.
exciting and mysterious and having a strong effect on your emotions:
We thought that Egypt was an incredibly romantic country.
C2 sometimes disapproving not practical and having a lot of ideas that are not related to real life:
She has a romantic idea of what it's like to be a struggling young artist.
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- His latest film is described as a 'romantic comedy'.
- Sing one of those romantic numbers.
- She wished her husband was a bit more romantic.
- I'd planned a romantic evening together, but circumstances conspired against it - friends arrived unexpectedly and then Dave was called out to an emergency.
- That evening they went for a romantic walk along the beach.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Loving and in love
- absence
- absence makes the heart grow fonder idiom
- adoring
- affection
- apple
- carry
- dear
- fondly
- have (got) it bad idiom
- head over heels (in love) idiom
- infatuated
- infatuation
- lose
- puppy love
- romance
- serious
- smitten
- stuck
- sweep sb off their feet idiom
- take a shine to sb idiom
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Exciting and interesting
Useless and futile
romantically
adverb uk/rəʊˈmæn.tɪ.kəl.i//rəˈmæn.tɪ.kəl.i/us/roʊˈmæn.t̬ɪ.kəl.i/
romanticnoun [ C ]
uk/rəʊˈmæn.tɪk//rəˈmæn.tɪk/us/roʊˈmæn.t̬ɪk/mainly disapprovingsomeone who is not practical and has ideas that are not related to real life:
You're a hopeless/incurable romantic.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Useless and futile
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift
- aimless
- airy-fairy
- be at a loose end idiom
- flaccid
- fool's errand
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous
- fruitless
- moon around
- motiveless
- negate
- no good idiom
- nugatory
- use
- useless
- vain
- vainly
- what good is ... idiom
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