romanticist

romanticist

noun

Definition of ROMANTICIST

one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world <those romanticists who seem to be perpetually surprised by mean or criminal behavior>

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

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

Near Antonyms cynic, defeatist, pessimist; empiric, empiricist

Antonyms hardnose, pragmatist, realist