ROMANTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does romantic mean? 

• ROMANTIC (noun)
  The noun ROMANTIC has 2 senses:

1. a soulful or amorous idealist

2. an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism

  Familiarity information: ROMANTIC used as a noun is rare.

• ROMANTIC (adjective)
  The adjective ROMANTIC has 3 senses:

1. belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts

2. expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance

3. not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic

  Familiarity information: ROMANTIC used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROMANTIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A soulful or amorous idealist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("romantic" is a kind of...):

dreamer; idealist (someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

romantic; romanticist

Hypernyms ("romantic" is a kind of...):

artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)

• ROMANTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

romantic; romanticist; romanticistic

Context example:

romantic poetry

Pertainym:

Romanticism (a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization)

Derivation:

Romanticism (a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance

Synonyms:

amatory; amorous; romantic

Context example:

a romantic moonlight ride

Similar:

loving (feeling or showing love and affection)

Derivation:

romance (a relationship between two lovers)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic

Synonyms:

quixotic; romantic; wild-eyed

Context example:

a wild-eyed dream of a world state

Similar:

impractical (not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters)

Derivation:

romance (a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life)

romanticism (impractical romantic ideals and attitudes)

 Context examples 

I am not romantic, you know; I never was.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

As you see, this eclipse might trigger not only good news about your career but also for your romantic life as well as your home life.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"Dear me, how romantic!" exclaimed Meg.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“How unusual! I don’t understand. We surely are not to expect some wildly romantic sea-story from your sober pen.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Starving lovers had always seemed romantic to her,—but she had had no idea how starving lovers lived.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"No," replied Elinor, "her opinions are all romantic."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He, who had married a daughter to Mr. Rushworth: romantic delicacy was certainly not to be expected from him.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I turned in the direction of the sound, and there, amongst the romantic hills, whose changes and aspect I had ceased to note an hour ago, I saw a hamlet and a spire.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A short or long-term association between two or more people, including kinship relations, romantic, business, and social interactions.

(Interpersonal Relationship, NCI Thesaurus)