Romantic definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary ROMAN'TIC, a. 1. Pertaining ... to romance, or resembling it; wild; fanciful; extravagant; as a romantic taste; romantic notions; romantic expectations; romantic zeal. 2. Improbably or chimerical; fictitious; as a romantic tale. 3. Fanciful; wild; full of wild or fantastic ...
The romantic drama definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Romantic Ro*man"tic, a. [F. romantique, fr. OF. romant. See ... 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 ...
... and hard work!" [syn: romanticize, romanticise, glamorize, glamourise] 2: make romantic in style; "The designer romanticized the little black dress" [syn: romanticize, romanticise] 3: act in a romantic way Merriam Webster's verb (-cized; -cizing) Date: 1818 transitive verb to make romantic ; treat as idealized or heroic < romanticize the past > intransitive verb 1. to hold romantic ideas 2. to present details, incidents, or people in a romantic way • romanticization noun Oxford Reference Dictionary v. (also -ise) 1 tr. a make or render romantic or unreal (a romanticized account of war). b describe ...
romanticism definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: impractical romantic ideals and attitudes 2: a movement in literature and art ... civilization; "Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality" [syn: Romanticism, Romantic Movement] [ant: classicalism, classicism] 3: an exciting and mysterious quality ... forms (2) an aspect of romanticism b. adherence to a romantic attitude or style 2. the quality or state of being romantic • romanticist noun, often capitalized Britannica Concise Literary, artistic, and philosophical ... Transcendentalism. Oxford Reference Dictionary n. (also Romanticism) adherence to a romantic style in art, music, etc. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Romanticism ... n. [CF. It. romanticismo, F. romantisme, romanticisme.] A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming ...
... only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions. Syn: Romantic. Usage: Sentimental, Romantic. Sentimental usually describes an error or excess of the sensibilities; romantic, a vice of the imagination. The votary of the former ... good or evil things of this life, as a mere romantic fancy of such who would be thought to be much ... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. 1. Tender, impressible, romantic. 2. Sententious, didactic, thoughtful. 3. Pathetic, romantic. Moby Thesaurus adoring, affectionate, apish, asinine, bathetic, batty, beery, ...
... Webster's 1828 Dictionary QUIXOT'IC, a. Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: not ... unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild- eyed dream of a world state" [syn: quixotic, romantic, wild-eyed] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Don Quixote Date ... in the pursuit of ideals; especially marked by rash lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action 2. capricious, unpredictable Synonyms: see ... 1913 Dictionary Quixotic Quix*ot"ic, a. Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded. ``Feats of ... imaginary, wild, mad, fanciful, freakish, Utopian, chimerical, fantastic, fantastical, absurdly romantic. Moby Thesaurus absurd, airy, autistic, chimerical, dereistic, dreamlike, dreamy, ...
... a social engagement between two persons that often has a romantic character b. a person with whom one has a usually romantic date 5. an engagement for a professional performance (as of ... 3. to become dated 4. to go out on usually romantic dates • datable also dateable adjective • dater noun Oxford Reference Dictionary ... with whom you are having, or may soon have, a romantic relationship. I have a date with Bob... N-COUNT 9 ... with whom you are having, or may soon have, a romantic relationship, you can refer to that person as your date ... regularly because you are having, or may soon have, a romantic relationship with them. You can also say that two ...
... adj 1: belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts; "romantic poetry" [syn: romantic, romanticist, romanticistic] n 1: someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality [syn: sentimentalist, romanticist] 2: an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism [syn: romanticist, romantic] [ant: classicist] Merriam Webster's noun see romanticism Oxford Reference ... Dictionary n. (also Romanticist) a writer or artist of the romantic school. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Romanticist Ro*man"ti* ...
... extravagantly. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adv 1: in a romantic manner; "she fantasized romantically about eloping with her boyfriend" [ant: unromantically] 2: in a romantic manner; "they were romantically linked" Merriam Webster's adverb see romantic I Collin's Cobuild Dictionary see romantic
... flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash] 4: tell romantic or exaggerated lies; "This author romanced his trip to an ... to exaggerate or invent detail or incident 2. to entertain romantic thoughts or ideas transitive verb 1. to try to influence ... c a love affair. 3 a a literary genre with romantic love or highly imaginative unrealistic episodes forming the central theme ... quixotize, quixotry, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, relationship, report, retell, rhapsodize, romantic tie, romanticism, romanticize, romanza, science fiction, sentiment, shocker, sick fancy ...
... simple song ; air 3. a popular song; especially a slow romantic or sentimental song • balladic adjective Oxford Reference Dictionary n. 1 ... song narrating a popular story. 2 a slow sentimental or romantic song. Phrases and idioms: ballad metre = common metre. Etymology: ME ... as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Ballad Bal ... simple language. N-COUNT 2. A ballad is a slow, romantic, popular song. N-COUNT Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms ...
... Selo (later renamed Pushkin). His first major work was the romantic poem Ruslan and Ludmila (1820). With his political verses and ... Banished to several provincial locations, he produced a cycle of romantic narrative poems that confirmed him as the leading Russian poet of the day and the leader of the Romantic generation of the 1820s. He also worked on his important ...