romantic

²romantic

noun

Definition of ROMANTIC

1

: a romantic person, trait, or component

2

capitalized : a romantic writer, artist, or composer

Examples of ROMANTIC

1. She married a real romantic who brings her roses every day.
2. Law school is no place for idealists and romantics.
3. Beethoven was the first great Romantic among composers.

First Known Use of ROMANTIC

1679

Related to ROMANTIC

Synonyms: Don Quixote, dreamer, fantast, idealizer, ideologue (also idealogue), idealist, romanticist, utopian, visionary

Antonyms: hardnose, pragmatist, realist

Related Words: emotionalist, sentimentalist; daydreamer, fantasizer, woolgatherer; Micawber, optimist, Pollyanna; do-gooder, reformer; perfectionist; doctrinaire, theorist, thinker

Near Antonyms: cynic, defeatist, pessimist; empiric, empiricist

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