romanticist
romanticist
nounDefinition 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
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