| 单词 | romanticize |
| 释义 | romanticize (once / 29112 pages) v To romanticize is either to put a positive spin on something that wasn’t great or to behave in a romantic way. If you’re sea sick on a cruise and spend the whole time clutching the railing but later say it was the best trip ever, you have romanticized your experience. To romanticize can mean to act in a way that lends itself to romance, such as by buying flowers or making goo-goo eyes. A more common meaning has less to do with romance, but also involves wearing rose-colored glasses. If you romanticize war, you're making it sound like a glorious, beautiful thing. To romanticize is to interpret things that are not glamorous in a glamorous way. WORD FAMILYromanticize: romanticization, romanticized, romanticizes, romanticizing+/romance: romanced, romances, romancing, romantic/romantic: romantically, romanticise, romanticism, romanticize, romantics, unromantic/romanticise: romanticisation, romanticised, romanticises, romanticising/romanticism: neoromanticism, romanticist, romanticistic/romanticist: romanticists/unromantic: unromantically USAGE EXAMPLESThat emptiness is filled with public language or romanticized connections. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) But college sports in 2016 is a far less romanticized place, for one reason: Wall Street Journal(Dec 22, 2016) The show was instrumental in shifting the popular landscape genre away from romanticized grandeur, typified by Ansel Adams, and toward matter-of-fact vernacular truth. Los Angeles Times(Dec 13, 2016) 1v interpret romantically Don't romanticize this uninteresting and hard work! Syn|Hyper glamorize, glamourise, romanticise idealise, idealize consider or render as ideal 2v make romantic in style The designer romanticized the little black dress Syn|Hyper romanticise alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 3v act in a romantic way Hyper act, behave, do behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself |
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