rom-com

noun

ˈräm-ˌkäm 

plural rom-coms

: romantic comedy

That's where the rom-com comes in, that wayward genre of sweet serendipity and forgivably thin plots set to rising music …

—Vogue

One of the film's pleasures is its movie within a movie, the rom-com "I Love You, I Love New York."

—Tad Friend

—often used before another noun

a silly rom-com plot

Does anybody cry funnier than Segel does in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the wonderful rom-com farce he not only starred in but wrote?

—Jim Windolf

Examples of rom-com in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This finale ends with what will probably be the closest this show ever gets to rom-com territory with this beautiful and thrilling scene with Sasha and Anatasia. — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 10 July 2026

Recent graduates of Canyon Crest Academy’s (CCA) Envision Cinema Conservatory program and other local San Diegan artists are collaborating this summer on a short rom-com film about the difficulties and nuances of young love. — News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2026

She is set to star in the upcoming lesbian rom-com, Dodie & Cheryl Get Hitched, alongside Mira Sorvino. — Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 2026

The rom-com Materialists threw a matchmaker into a love triangle with a perfect-on-paper rich guy and the broke schlub who was her true soulmate. — Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1958, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for rom-com

• aplomb
• balaam
• begam
• cocom
• embalm
• islam
• pogrom
• salaam
• sitcom
• balm
• bom
• bomb