romantic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: romantic	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for romantic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
romantic adj belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts; "romantic poetry" Synonym(s): romantic, romanticist, romanticistic expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride" Synonym(s): amatory, amorous, romantic not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state" Synonym(s): quixotic, romantic, wild- eyed n a soulful or amorous idealist an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism Synonym(s): romanticist, romantic Antonym(s): classicist
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Romantic \Roman"tic\, a. [F. romantique, fr. OF. romant. See {Romance}.] 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. Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape. Syn: Sentimental; fanciful; fantastic; fictitious; extravagant; wild; chimerical. See {Sentimental}. {The romantic drama}. See under {Drama}.